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 father summoning his son on such a journey. "That's your father all over! Not a word to spare. Disposes of you and every body else just as if you were a package of goods to be forwarded by express."

"Yes," returned Gerald, with a queer tone in his voice, "that is papa to the life. But he never took me quite so much by surprise. Of course, I've wanted to go up. I was dreadfully disappointed when he said I couldn't. But it's too bad to have to break up here and leave before the rest of you do." He glanced at Philip, who sat in a surprise not particularly pleasant looking over the letter Gerald had handed him.

"Well, I think myself you will face the hardship better if I let Philip go along to take charge of you," said Mr. Marcy, quizzically. "How does that idea strike you?"

"O, Mr. Marcy!" exclaimed Gerald, with a look of intense pleasure; "do you really mean that?"

"I surely do," returned the proprietor of the Ossokosee. "I thought of it the moment I read your father's letter. I haven't at hand just now any servant that I could spare, or, in fact, be willing to commit you to, and I have