Part 6 (1/2)

'But do you knohat it is he wants of uessed: 'Yes; he wants you to let him sit close to you for half an hour'

She said that he sat very near her in church

'Ah,' said I, 'but he hed, andkisses 'There's very little he hasn't daring enough for!'

We talked of his courage

'Is he good as well?' said Julia,out,

'Good! Oh, so kind!'

This appeared to convince her

'Very generous to you and every one, is he not?' she said; and fro his kind treat up to hie to Heriot: 'You may tell him--tell hi ht in a twinkling: 'that rew black, and asked, 'Did she give that beast Boddy a rose?'

I had to confess she did; and feeling a twinge of my treason to her, felt hers to Heriot

'Humph!' he went; 'she shall suffer for that'

All this was likeon until the curtain should lift and reveal my father to me

There was soon a secret to be read in Heriot's face for one who loved it as I did Julia's betrayed nothing I was not taken into their confidence, and luckily not; otherwise I fear I should have served them ill, I was so poor a disseations by the suspicious usher I felt sure that Heriot and Julia h prayer-time, and hers wandered over the boys' heads till they rested on hiave a short flutter and dropped, like a bird shot dead The boys e that love was busy in their midst, for they spoke of Heriot and Julia as a jolly couple, and of Boddy as oneto play the part of old Nick the first opportunity She was kinder to the that she should send in cakes of her own et these thoughtful presents as often as once a fortnight, and it beca a knot of fellows or to hi out of the room, and sometimes entirely of his own idea I am persuaded that if she had consented to marry Boddy, the boys would have been seriously disposed to conspire to jump up in the church and forbid the banns We should have preferred to hand her to the junior usher, Catman, of whom the rumour ran in the school that he once drank a bottle of wine and was sick after it, and he was therefore a weak creature to ourconfirmed by his pale co princess to hiht have thought with the other boys that she was growing prettier, only I never could iine her so delicious as when she smiled at my father

The consequence of the enlistment of the whole school in Heriot's interests was that at cricket- on the canal, Mr Boddy was begirt with spies, and little Te hidden in tall grass, had heard between Boddy and Julia Boddy asked her to take private lessons in French from him Heriot listened to theJulia's boat, where Boddy sat beside her, and Heriot rowed stroke-oar He dipped his blade, and said, loud enough to be heard by me in Catman's boat,

'Do you think French useful in a military education, sir?'

And Boddy said, 'Yes, of course it is'

Says Heriot, 'Then I think I shall take lessons'

Boddy told hi lessons in the school

'Oh!' says Heriot, 'I mean private lessons'; and here he repeated one of Temple's pieces of communication: 'so muchhalf up frorowled

'Sit, sir, and don't dance in the boat, if you please, or the lady will be overset,' said Heriot

Julia requested to be allowed to land and walk hoht the rudder lines and leapt on the bank to hand her out; then all the boys in her boat and in Catman's shouted, 'Miss Julia! dear Miss Julia, don't leave us!' and we heard wheedling voices: 'Don't go off with him alone!'