“‘_Never did nothing to nobody!_’” repeated old ’Sias, in supreme scorn. “_That’s_ your notion of an angel and of Miss Em., is it? You put my pipe out with your ‘Never did nothing to nobody!’ Miss Em. was always doing good to everybody, there!” “Well, I thinks as people what means no harm and never does nothing to nobody is a heap gooder than them as is always a-aggrawating people,” retorted Sally. Before taking leave of old ’Sias I must mention one circumstance of which I hope my readers will be glad, for his sake. Sereny, to use her own words, “got religion.” She really _did_, if a total though gradual change of heart and life and manners for the better was any proof of it. And she became at last what she had promised to be at first, the comfort of her poor, old, patient husband’s latter days. In the spring of the following year Ronald and Emolyn were married. Ronald, who was, in the right of his wife, the owner and the heir of more wealth than he would ever know what to do with, resigned his commission in the Navy. “It is all very well,” he said, “to talk of the duty of serving one’s country, but there are hundreds of men who are just as able and as willing to serve as I am, and who need my position a great deal more than I do. I must resign to make room for one of them—as well as to stay home with my bonny bride.” Of course Em. agreed with him in this. Their honeymoon was spent at Edengarden, while the Wilderness Manor-house, which had been given to Em. as her marriage portion, was being renovated to receive the newly wedded pair. John Palmer and his family were to continue to live in the Red Wing and manage the estate. Mr. and Mrs. Leonidas Bruce consented to reside at The Breezes as long as the aged commodore should live. THE END ------------------------------------------------------------------------ POPULAR BOOKS By MRS. E. D. E. N. SOUTHWORTH In Handsome Cloth Binding Price per volume, 60 Cents