"What a jolly time we are having, papa!" Bertha remarked, with a
long-drawn breath of content, when the story was concluded.

"You are right, pet, and I only hope you will always be as happy," her
father returned, fondly, as he stroked her glossy hair.

"Of course, I am sorry that Miss Huntington's arm had to be broken," the
child continued, naively, "but we have had such a delightful time during
these last three weeks that I wish it could always last, don't you?"

"It would be very pleasant, Bertha," said her father, musingly.

"I think we three make just the nicest chums," the little miss went on;
"wouldn't it be fine if we could stay so and always be together?"

Mr. Lawrence's fine eyes were resting upon the fair face of his child's
governess at that moment, and there was a strangely wistful look in
them, a tender, tremulous expression about his handsome mouth, also.

"It would, indeed, dear," he said, more as if speaking to himself than
in answer to her, but in such an intensely earnest tone that it sent a
sudden thrill through Violet's heart.

Involuntarily she lifted her eyes, met his look, and something in it
made the hot blood come surging up to her brow and lose itself amid the
waves of golden hair that lay in such pretty confusion there.

"Don't you wish so, too, Miss Huntington?" Bertha questioned, turning to
her, and all unconscious that she was treading upon delicate ground.

Violet's eyes drooped, and she turned to the window to hide the vivid
color in her cheeks.

She hesitated a moment before replying to the child's question, then she
said, in a low, quiet voice:

"I have been very happy since I came to stay with you, dear."

The further trials and experiences of Violet and how her future
happiness was secured is told in the sequel to this story entitled "With
Heart So True," and is published in handsome cloth binding uniform with
this volume.

THE END.

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