Certainly not, answered Miss Tresham, speaking with great decision, but without look ing up from her book. Katy, you know your mother forbade your ever again asking Mr. Annesley for a ride.

But she did not forbid her taking a ride if Mr. Annesley asked her, did she? Said a gay voice; and the next moment there appeared at the end of Katharine's walk, between the Chero kee hedge and the gooseberry-bushes, a Slender, handsome young cavalier, in riding-boots and Spurs, who stood with Katy mounted triumph ently on his shoulder, one tiny hand clutching nervously at his coat-collar, and her blond ring lets falling in a golden Shower upon his crisp dark curls.

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