banks applicable to berthage and commercial establishments.

On the porch long minutes later, when once more David had gone to bed, Simeon Holly said coldly to his wife:--

"I suppose you realize, Ellen, just what you've pledged yourself to, by that absurd outburst of yours in the barn to-night--and all because that ungodly music and the moonshine had gone to your head!"

"But I want the boy, Simeon. He--he makes me think of--John."

Harsh lines came to the man's mouth, but there was a perceptible shake in his voice as he answered:--

"We're not talking of John, Ellen. We're talking of this irresponsible, hardly sane boy upstairs. He can work, I suppose, if he's taught, and in that way he won't perhaps be a dead loss. Still, he's another mouth to feed, and that counts now. There's the note, you know,--it's due in August."

"But you say there's money--almost enough for it--in the bank." Mrs. Holly's voice was anxiously apologetic.

"Yes, I know" vouchsafed the man. "But almost enough is not quite enough."

"But there's time--more than two months. It isn't due till the last of August, Simeon."