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154 fully stocked, and it appeared to him that Gundabook might be supplied from it and the sheep never missed. The contingency of sending Allan would be a necessity ff George could not go, that must be taken along with other business necessities. The mother, on the other hand, though that if George could not go Gundabook must be given up; and that another station would cast up by the time Jamie was fit to be trusted. She did not grasp so eagerly at the opportunities as her husband, and rested more complacently in the thought of the comfort she had attained to.

"I wonder," said Amy to George, a day or two after his first intimation that he was likely to leave the Lindsays, "that you can wish to change your employment when everyone here is so kind to you and treats you as an equal, to take service with the Hammonds who hold themselves so high."

"It seems very absurd, but one likes to serve, if one has to serve, amongst gentlefolks, you know," said George.

"There are different ways of discovering gentlefolks," said Amy. "I only know that the gentlefolks had no kindness for me while these good people here have been so different."