came to a matter of duty.

However, as a result she was quite ill during the
last of August and the first of September. The sea-
son had been unusually hot, and Mrs. Diantha had
not spared herself from her duty on account of the
heat. She would have scorned herself if she had done
so. But she could not, strong-minded as she was,
avert something like a heat prostration after a long
walk under a burning sun, nor weeks of confinement
and idleness in her room afterward.

When September came, and a night or two of com-
parative coolness, she felt stronger; still she was
compelled by most unusual weakness to refrain from
her energetic trot in her duty-path; and then it was
that something happened.

One afternoon Lily fluttered over to Amelia's,
and Amelia, ever on the watch, spied her.

"May I go out and see Lily?" she asked Grand-
mother Stark.

"Yes, but don't talk under the windows; your
mother is asleep."

Amelia ran out.

"I declare," said Grandmother Stark to Grand-