saw Salemina's rising colour, "though of course if one has to reside
in a single state, Massachusetts offers more compensations than any
other."

"She knows every nook and corner in the place," continued Salemina;
"she has even seen the house where I was born, and her name is
Benella Dusenberry."

"Impossible!" cried Francesca. "Dusenberry is unlikely enough, but
who ever heard of such a name as Benella! It sounds like a
flavouring extract."

"She came over to see the world, she says."

"Oh! then she has money?"

"No--or at least, yes; or at least she had enough when she left
America to last for two or three months, or until she could earn
something."

"Of course she left her little all in a chamois-skin bag under her
pillow on the steamer," suggested Francesca.

"That is precisely what she did," Salemina replied, with a pale
smile. "However, she was so ill in the steerage that she had to pay
twenty-five or thirty dollars extra to go into the second cabin, and
this naturally reduced the amount of her savings, though it makes no
difference since she left them all behind her, save a few dollars in
her purse. She says she is usually perfectly well, but that she was
very tired when she started, that it was her first sea-voyage, and