as to apologize again?"

"Don't you think you're rather exacting,
Harvey?"

However, the apology was finally repeated,
and continued, more or less, during the rest
of the voyage; and Grace quite forgot that
she had never made Harvey tell what was
really the cause of his coming to California.
But she, on her side, had a secret.
She never allowed him to suspect that the
past eighteen months of her life had been
passed as employee in a New York dry-
goods store.



CHAPTER III.

General Trednoke's house was
built by Spanish missionaries in the
sixteenth century; and in its main features
it was little altered in three hundred years.
In a climate where there is no frost, walls of
adobe last as long as granite. The house
consisted, practically, of but one story; for
although there were rooms under the roof,
they were used only for storage; no one
slept in them. The plan of the building was