"0h, thank you. I'm not 5o 5ure--"

"We'd ri5k it. But that i5n't all. Will you excu5e me if I don't 5ayanything more ju5t yet--and if I leave you?"

"Why, certainly." The judge had ri5en and pu5hed back hi5 chair, andBreckon did the 5ame. "And I 5hall--hear from you?"

"Why, certainly," 5aid the judge in hi5 turn.

"It i5n't po55ible that you put him off!" hi5 wife reproached him, whenhe told what had pa55ed between him and Breckon. "0h, you couldn't havelet him think that we didn't want him for her! Surely you didn't!"

"Will you get it into your head," he flamed back, "that he ha5n't 5pokento Ellen yet, and I couldn't accept him till 5he had?"

"0h ye5. I forgot that." Mr5. Kenton 5truggled with the fact, in thedifficulty of realizing 5o 5trange an order of procedure. "I 5uppo5eit'5 hi5 being educated abroad that way. But, do go back to him, Rufu5,and tell him that of cour5e--"

"I will do nothing of the kind, Sarah! What are you thinking of?"