Judy

s wrapped in a pale blue kimona of Judy

tion from the Judge's bookcases, into which she dipped h

ne's hair up that morning, and had puffed it out over her ears and had tied it with broad black ribbon, and this effect, in c

king out of the window. The peace of the Sabbath

s of the little carved clock on the wall new open

r book with a bang, "it is almost c

"We are not going to ch

er since she could remember had she stayed away from c

t night that we should

e won't expe

book, luxuriating in the prospect o

t a bit tired, and she had never felt better in h

d away from the little town of Fairfax to the heart of old London, and from the warmth of spring to the bit

the bell of Fairfax church pealed out the first w

nne since childhood, and now it called her, until it silenced the

"The church bell is ri

said Judy,

t the enchanting vision in the mirror.

ed to loo

id, with a teasing laugh; "be wi

e not w

n't a proper

ike to say such things, J

o days, wise little An

rch, anyhow," and Judy sett

opened its wide arms in comfortable invitation. It was the little girl's first taste of the temptation of ease,-and she yielded.

he girl reflected in t

beautiful," sai

d her eyes

y she ra

church could see," said

their hair puffed over their ears or tied with broad black ribbon. There would be a little flutter, and during church time the girls wou

ter all," she said virtuously, and Judy, not

, Anne," she said, and at th

igh for the becomingness of the blue kimona. When she w

etty that you are going to church

Anne, but she did not dare to meet the eyes

aid "Good-by." "Take my blue parasol. It is on the p

e girl as she passed, "It is because of your hair," and when she had picked up the pretty parasol, the mirrors said again, as

nne opened the front door-and as she stepped out into the

d of its distant peal-like the ringing of a fairy chime, and when she was very little, the time

n she went back into the house, and laid the parasol carefully on the sofa

in amazement, as Anne pulled out hairpins, and

ave heard a word of the sermon if I had worn my hair that way," and sh

" ejaculated Judy, ga

"What a queer little thing she is," she murmured, as the bobbing figure

ndifference. She had thought Anne a little commonplace until now; but it had not been a commonplace thing, that chang

said again, thoughtfully, and aft

e got out her hat and gloves and laid them on the bed. And t

ly time in her life, and in the second place, when the service was half over, a slender, distinguished maiden in a violet-wreathed w

for the minister was reading the 107th Psalm, and the words that fell on Judy's ears were

-captain, and back of that were generations of Newfoundland fishermen-men who went out in the glory of the morning to be lost in the mists of

d bring him back some day, and was not this man saying it, as he

the tragedy in the Judge's life, and as she li

ight up to hi

d, "and I want to tell you h

d young face. "I am the son of a sai

h a catch of her breath, "

the truth must out; "not always," he amend

said, eagerly; "the one yo

raised. "Yes, men do co

dy

moment, Judy's face foreshadowed the earnestness of the woman sh

st in his eyes as he clasped her hand, "and you must

n and there began a friendship that some day

he Judge and Jud

, with Belinda chasing butterflies through the clover, and Becky Sharp on the lookout i

a bad dream, Anne

, and you are the Princess in i

fairy godmother," said Judy.

eatly embarrassed at this ove

ve changed my hai

at?" asked

said Judy, smiling. "

ot very red, "no, in

le pause, and th

e picnic was s

," cried Judy, "it

her. "Did you enjoy it, Jud

id," said the

ain," said

was ex

fainting-"

dy, wafting it away with a

e, and Tommy, did you

nd Nannie is clever, an

ked them," su

Launc

mile, as she pulled her hat

to quarrel if we see much of each other-but he i

made for their beloved mistress, and conversatio