of law when I entered, only three years later."

"Well, it's been easy enough since, even with tutoring and shorthanding;
six lawyers to every case--"

"Wasn't tutoring Helen your main occupation?" asked Kitty Reid
audaciously. "I have somehow inferred that--"

But there was a sound of hurrying feet on the stairs, and she sprang to
the door, crying:--

"Cadge and Pros.! They said they were coming."

On the threshold appeared a lank girl with shining black hair and quick,
keen, good-humoured eyes.

"Howdy?" she asked with brisk cordiality; "angel children, hope I see you
well."

In her wake was a tall, quiet-looking young man with a reddish-brown
beard.

"Salute; salaam," he said; "all serene, Kitty? And you, Miss Winship?"

Then as the two became accustomed to the light, I saw what I had nervously
expected. There was a little start, an odd moment of embarrassment. They
gazed at Helen with quick wonder at her loveliness, then turned away to
hide their surprise.

It was as if in the few days since they had seen her--for the new comers