Presently Matty shook out the nmsiin cap she was making, and laid ib oa her workbox, put liar silver thimbla as'de, and dropped her hands, one over the other, into her lap. Then she looked up. _ • _ Tom was stating strsight at her. Shp colored violently, - and so,"for that matter, did he. ""

' To:n,' aha bejgftn; ' don't ba aagry. Oia, do fon?ive me !' She paused, trying to think ho> slta could fcell iiira Safely ; biit she %renh on blafl'tly, ' I waut to-ead our augagepisnt.' • 'So do I,' -rejoined- he, wi >-h--difiicuUy wliisifo.;' Thaa both b-arsi iutr •a ht-arty iaus;h. ' You sea.. Mat,' said -Tom, wheii he couid speafc ' llw3 some ooeeke.' - ' Ma^ty a'^jJ&ared sobs t^ksn quite by sur prise au *hi 3 declaration. : ' But I coulda'S help it-, indeed I conUla'b g' aCi { a ' ■ " ■ : : . ,j ' ' -he is a yoang-lady whose name is Kate,; and ber byes are the blaak.-st. and her cheeks tho reddest, and she aings ' tToder* \the-SW»'! with guitir accoraoaniinea;/ rattled Matty all in a breath.
B wae Tom's turn to stare. 'Where did you find all shia oui ?' he asked. ' My dear little bird,. etc. I think I'll go and write to my future oousia ;" and off she ran, gla&.to" escape the qaeationa -.vhich she feared lie might; -propound. 'But you havea't told me—' he called after her.
1 And never shall,' she returned, whisking into her own room.
