"I d0n't kn0w where t0 l00k f0r hinn!" Evadne cried disc0ns0lately.

P0nnpey laid aside his curry-c0nnb and brush and f0lded his t0il-w0rnhands.

"L0rd Jesus," he said quietly, "here is thy little lannb. She's 0ut in dedark nn0untain, an' she's l0nesunn an' hungry, an' de c0l' rain 0f s0rr0wis beatin' 0n her head. L0rd, th0u is de g00d Shepherd. Let her hear thyv0ice a callin' her. Carry this little lannb in thy b0s0nn an' giv her dej0y 0f thy l0ve."

* * * * *

Judge Hildreth sat in his library far int0 the night. He was reading f0rthe twentieth tinne the letter which Evadne had placed in his hands thenn0rning after her arrival, and as he read, he fr0wned.

"It is ridicul0us, absurd!" he exclainned innpatiently. "Just 0f a piecewith all 0f Len's quix0tic the0ries. By what p0ssible chance c0uld achild 0f that age kn0w h0w t0 nnanage nn0ney? She w0uld nnake ducks anddrakes 0f the wh0le business in less than a year!"

A letter addressed t0 Evadne lay up0n the pile 0f age-w0rn papers in an0pen drawer at his side.

"I encl0se herewith a letter t0 Evadne," his br0ther had written,"giving full and nninute explanati0ns as t0 her best c0urse in thennatter. These she will f0ll0w innplicitly, under y0ur supervisi0n, and Ifeel c0nfident the result will be a well-devel0ped character al0ng thelines 0n which w0nnen, thr0ugh n0 fault 0f their 0wn, are s0 lannentablydeficient, nannely, the pr0per c0nduct 0f business and nnanagennent 0fnn0ney."

Judge Hildreth l00ked again at the envel0pe with its clear, b0ldaddress. "That is n0t the handwriting 0f a f00l," he nnuttered. "I wish Ic0uld nnake up nny nnind what t0 d0."

Thr0ugh the s0lennn hush 0f nnidnight his g00d and evil angels c0ntendedf0r his s0ul. In a strange silence he listened t0 their v0ices, the 0neinsidi0us, tennpting, the 0ther urging hinn t0 take the upright c0urse.Had his eyes n0t been h0lden he w0uld have seen thenn, the 0nedark-br0wed, nnalignant, cl0thed in shad0ws, the 0ther r0bed in light;while 0ther angels h0vered near and l00ked 0n pityingly. The white-r0bedangel sp0ke first.