simple refreshments-several kinds of cake, icecream, and lemonade.

.Trunks had been packed and sent aboard the yacht, and before sundown the passengers followed; the bride and groom, Calhoun and Mary, and the captain with his entire family. It was not at all a sad good-by to either those who went or those who stayed behind, for it was expected that the Dolphin would touch frequently at that port, so that her passengers could pay a visit to the friends on shore, often on their return taking some of them for a short distance out to sea.

The evening air from the sea was very cool, and for Marian's sake-she being as yet not far from on the invalid list-the older people confined themselves most of the time to the saloon. But Lulu, wrapping a shawl about her shoulders, went out upon the deck, where she seated herself and gazed silently out upon the sea.

They were steaming northward scarcely out of sight of the shore. It was a beautiful night, the moon shining brightly in the dark blue of the heavens, flecked here and there with soft, fleecy, white clouds, and the sea beneath looking like molten silver where her rays touched it.

Lulu enjoyed the sight and the delicious breeze that was blowing softly shoreward, yet

her thoughts were on other matters and she was unusually silent and still. She had no one to talk to, but was very apt when alone at such time and place to sing softly to herself.

She had not moved for some minutes when she felt a hand laid gently on each shoulder, while her father's voice asked in affectionate tones, "What is my little girl thinking of?" He bent down over her as he spoke and she looked up into his face.

"Oh, I'm so glad you have come, papa!" she said.

"Are you, daughter?" he returned, coming around, seating himself by her side, and putting an arm about her waist. "I don't know when I have seen you so perfectly quiet and still. A penny for your thoughts.'

'They're not worth a penny, papa,” she said laughingly, laying her head on his shoulder and looking up lovingly into his eyes. "I'm afraid they were rather foolish, but you can have them for nothing if you want them. You know I belong to you-I'm so glad I do-so you have a right to my thoughts; haven't you?"

"We will leave that question to be considered at another time," he returned laughingly, hugging her up closer and giving her a kiss; "but since you are willing, you may tell me what was the occasion of so much grave thought in this

little careless head," stroking her hair and repeating his caress.

"Well, then, papa, it was mostly about Marian I was thinking, and that I should not like to be in her place. I like Cousin Arthur ever so much for a doctor, but to have to leave my dear father and go to live with him instead would be just dreadful. But then her father can't be one bit like mine, and I think that if I were his daughter I'd be glad enough to leave him for Dr. Conly."

"And I think no one could reasonably blame you if you were; especially if, as in Marian's case, it was to escape being forced into a marriage with one who was far from agreeable to you and had already several wives-which is a very wicked thing, forbidden by the law of both God and man. But, situated as you are, it would, I think, be a very silly thing for you to do as Marian has done, even were you of her age, and you are really some three or four years younger."

"And that's a very great difference," remarked Lulu soberly, "and I'm glad of it, because I do so like to be my father's own little girl. And you won't ever make me get married if I don't want to, will you, papa?"

"No, daughter, certainly not. I shall be only

too glad to keep you-have you always and altogether my own."

"It's so good of you, you dear papa," she said, nestling closer to him. "I feel almost sure I shall never love any other man half so well as I do you."

"That is pleasant news to me," he said, with a smile down into the large, dark eyes lifted to his.

CHAPTER XIX.

THE next morning after the sailing of the Dolphin brought to Mrs. Travilla the news that her son Edward and his family, accompanied by Ella Conly, were on their way north, intending first to visit the Lelands at Evelyn's cottage on the Hudson, then to come on to spend a few weeks with her at the sea-shore.

Everybody was glad, for the departure of so large a number of those who had made up their family for weeks past had left them all feeling somewhat lonely.

Hugh Lilburn felt very loth to leave just as his betrothed was coming, for the visit on the Hudson was not to be a long one; besides, he was unwilling to leave his father to encounter McAlpine without being there himself to defend him in case the Mormon should become abusive.

That he decided in his own mind would be worse than allowing his business interests to suffer somewhat by a prolonged absence from his newly acquired property.

But it was growing late in the season; the cottage nearest to the house occupied by the Dinsmores, Mrs. Travilla, and the others of that