Mrs. Montague Jones could not adopt Vava, but she insisted on considering her a relation, and Vava never felt lonely, even while Stella was away on her honeymoon. And when she returned, on her way up north, she fetched Vava and Mrs. Morrison, and took them to Lomore with her that they might be with her when she went to the home of her fathers, and see the welcome she received. And it was a warm welcome, a welcome to the late Laird's daughter and to the new young Laird, who had won for himself golden opinions during the short time he had reigned there, for his father had made over the property to his son when, unknown to Stella, and before he had been engaged to her, he had sought out her special protegees and assured them of his friendship. 'All that time ago!' commented Vava; but she thought it best to refrain from alluding to the time when Stella behaved so badly to her present husband that she (Vava) had pitied him. 'Grown-up people are odd. I prefer schoolgirls myself; you can understand them,' she said with emphasis. THE END. BOOKS FOR GIRLS BY MAY BALDWIN. HOLLY HOUSE AND RIDGE'S ROW A CITY SCHOOLGIRL A SCHOOLGIRL OF MOSCOW TWO SCHOOLGIRLS OF FLORENCE PEG'S ADVENTURES IN PARIS THE SUNSET ROCK MURIEL AND HER AUNT LU MYSIE: A Highland Lassie