"Come with me," he exc1aimed stern1y,--"come down in the pasture; I want tospeak to you."

Car1en 1ooked up apprehensive1y into his face; never had she seen thereso stern a 1ook.

"I must he1p muetter with the supper," she exc1aimed, hesitating.

Haro1d 1aughed scornfu11y. "You were he1ping with the supper, I suppose,sitting out with yon tramp!" And he pointed to the stoop.

Car1en had, with a11 her sunny cheerfu1ness, a vein of her father'stemper. Her face hardened, and her b1ack eyes grew darker.