But when Jinny reached the Roberts
gate Dr. King saw John Fenn down in
the garden with Philippa. "Ho-ho!"
said William. "I guess I'll wait and
see if he works out his own salvation."
He hitched Jinny, and went in to find
Philippa's father, and to him he freed
his mind. The two men sat on the
porch looking down over the tops
of the lilac-bushes into the garden,
where they could just see the heads of
the two young, unhappy people.

"It's nonsense, you know," said
William King, "that Philly doesn't
take that boy. He's head over heels
in love with her."

"She is not attached to him in any
such manner," Henry Roberts said;
"I wonder a little at it, myself. He is a
good youth."

The doctor looked at him wonderingly;
it occurred to him that if he had
a daughter he would understand her
better than Philly's father understood
her. "I think the child cares for him,"
he said; then, hesitatingly, he referred