awhile, and then quite probably resume my studies here or abroad until
I can obtain a position suited to my plans and taste. I thank you for
your note of alarm in regard to Miss St. John, although I must say
that to my mind there is more of incentive than of warning in your
words. I think I can at least venture on a few reconnoissances, as the
major might say, before I beat a retreat. Is it too early to make one
now?"

Mrs. Mayburn smiled. "No," she said, laconically,

"I see that you think my reconnoissance will lead to a siege," Graham
added. "Well, I can at least promise that there shall be no rash
movements."



CHAPTER V

IMPRESSIONS

Graham, smiling at his aunt and still more amused at himself, started
to pay his morning visit. "Yesterday afternoon," he thought, "I
expected to make but a brief call on an aunt who was almost a stranger
to me, and now I am domiciled under her roof indefinitely. She has
introduced me to a charming girl, and in an ostensible warning
shrewdly inserted the strongest incentives to venture everything,
hinting at the same time that if I succeeded she would give me more
than her blessing. What a vista of possibilities has opened since I
crossed her threshold! A brief time since I was buried in German
libraries, unaware of the existence of Miss St. John, and forgetting