more like the Thaddeus of old than Thaddeus did himself; and then,
at a period in which man feels himself the least among the
insignificant, did our hero find happiness unalloyed once more, for
to the pride of being a father was added the satisfaction of seeing
Jane and Ellen acknowledge a superior. Make no mistake, you who
read. It was not to Thaddeus junior that these gems bowed down. It
was to the good woman who came in to care for the little one and his
mother that they humbled themselves.

"She's great," said Thaddeus to himself, as he watched Jane bustling
about to obey the command of the temporary mistress of the situation
as she had never bustled before.

"She's a second Elizabeth," chuckled Thaddeus, as he listened to an
order passed down the dumb-waiter shaft from the stout empress of
the moment to the trembling queen of the kitchen.

"She's a little dictatorial," whispered Thaddeus to his newspaper,
when the monarch of all she surveyed gave him HIS orders. "But
there are times, even in a Republic like this, when a dictator is an
advantage. I hate to see a woman cry, but the way Jane wept at the
routing Mrs. Brown gave her this morning was a finer sight than
Niagara."

But, alas! this happy state of affairs could not last forever.
Thaddeus was just beginning to get on easy terms with Mrs. Brown
when she was summoned elsewhere.

"Change of heir is necessary for one in her profession," sighed
Thaddeus; and then, when he thought of resuming the reins himself,