handsomely for the occasion," laughed Rosie.

"Ah! is she also to be a bridesmaid?" asked the captain with a smiling
glance at his little girl, who was turning her bright eyes from one to
another with a surprised, pleased, yet puzzled look.

"Not just that," replied Rosie; then went on to explain her plan for
giving the two little Elsies a part in the ceremony.

"Should you like to do that, daughter?" asked the captain, taking the
hand of the little girl and drawing her to his side.

"I'm 'most afraid I would not know how to do it right, papa," she
answered with doubtful look and tone.

"You can take lessons beforehand," he said; "but you shall do just as
you please about it."

"And the question need not be decided at once," remarked Grandma Elsie.
"We will let the matter rest till we learn what your cousin Elsie
Dinsmore thinks about joining you in it."

"Yes," said Rosie, "and fortunately we do not need to settle anything
more to-day. Maud and Sydney must be consulted before we quite decide on
the colour and material of the bridesmaids' dresses."




CHAPTER V.