A Little Queen of Hearts - An International Story

nd Captain Revell. It is astonishing how much can be couched in the ring of a word when one looks carefully to it; and the tone in which Mr. Harris called "Har

of her errand. "We are good friends, Marie-Celeste and I," said Hartley proudly, "and I was counting on seeing something of her on the way over, but I

the way myself through the passage below decks, and you are welcome to come forward in the same fashion whenever the bow has any attraction for you. As you are alone, you will hardly be missed from the second cabin,

had been having at the gate. "I sometimes wonder what we had better do about it. She arrives at decisions so quickly an

morning, and if, on the whole, she had not been more brave than bold in her call upon the captain.. He would have been quite sure on that score had he known how the little heart had thumped and the little knees trembled as she made her way to t

ion, and presumably in a line of thought suggested by the book be had temporarily suspended reading-a line of thought, at any rate, that made him wholly oblivious to his surroundings. It was somewhat of a surprise, therefore, for him to find his book flying out of one hand with a momentum that swept the cigar out of the other; but he did not need to look far or long for an explanation. "Oh, I'm so sorry," gasped a brea

fully before returning it. "They are a little too fine for steamer use, aren't they?"

eased by the child's friendliness; "but

urry. I think I will make myself sit righ

r. Belden, smiling at the infer

," Marie-Celeste further explained. "It is called

ke it, for I find life rathe

hough nothing could possibly have more interest f

not very much faith in human nature, for a third; besides, no one in the world that I care very much for; so you see I am in rather a bad pl

?" she queried, after a mo

was not in the habit of talking to children, was not

ecause it was his family motto that helped Leonard (he's the boy in the story I spoke about) ever so much, and that taught him to be cheerful and contented, and it se

u know I'm

e walking on the deck last evening,

e whole, that your father

d, and we have some English relatives whom we are very fond of. Th

nt surprise; "and what i

or Marie-Celeste detected not

suddenly to retire into himself and h

ught to talk to me a while longer, i

me appreciating the situation; "but anyhow I shall

I try to answer your question about our family motto. I've never thought much about it, but it's 'Dwell as though about to depart,' or so

ieve-yes, I'm sure that very motto stands at

to read it. Will you have finished

right away," and suiting the action to the word, she was

g to let this new little friend give him the slip, and nothing loath,

oil it for you?" she a

bit o

Mrs. Ewing's beautiful story, graphically describing little Leon

0

at all," she said, when all w

and wholly new sensation in his eyes. "And now if you will excuse me," he

ittle in the telling. It was the realization of this kinship of experience and yet of the widely different effect upon soul and character that had impelled him to take his sudden leave of Marie-Celeste, and then, pausing