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MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
Write each mixed number as an improper fraction.

1) 6 8
2 1)

51 5 25
A) 1
B) 8 C) 2 D) 4

2) 25 5
2 2)

A) 127 27 D) 128
5 B) 5 C) 11 5

3) 911
3 3)

103 12 38 102

A) 11
B) 11 C) 11 D) 11

4) 6
1216 4)

11 109 9 27
A) 2
B) 16 C) 8 D) 4

5) 11
1819 5)

A) 21719 227 29
B) 19 C) 12 D) 19

5
6) 208
6)

A) 35 165 25 D) 300
B) 8 C) 2

Change the improper fraction to a whole or mixed number.

7
7) A) 3
3

1 3 1
7)

3
 1
C) 2 3 D) 3

49
8) 7 8)
2
A) 7 B) 8 C) 7 7 D) 6
 6622 9)
9)
1
A) 2 C) 3 D) 4
B) 311

9015 10)
10)
2
A) 6 B) 7 D) 5
C) 615

11)
5910 11)
9 9 9 1

A) 510 B)610 C) 410 D) 610

66
12)
12) 3

A) 22 B) 23 C) 21 D) 22 23

Write the fraction in lowest terms.

13) 8
2 13)

1
B) 7 C) 8
2 D) 4
A) 4

14) 14
6 14)

7 7 13 3
A) 15 B) 3 C) 5 D) 7

15) 9860 15)

30 97 60 49

A) 49 B) 59 C) 98 D) 30

16) 15636 16)

3 13 31 37
A) 13 B) 3 C) 7 D) 157

17) 288198 17)

199 11 287 16
A) 289 C) 197
B) 16 D) 11
 66
18) 18)
750
67 749 11 125

A) 751 C) 125
B) 65 D) 11

380
19) 19)
440
22 439 127 19

A) 19 B) 379 C) 147 D) 22

Solve the problem.

20) The fineness (purity) of gold is regulated by law and is the same in all parts of the world. The 20)
purity is stated in terms of karats. 14-kt gold is 14 parts gold and 10 parts alloy. Write this measure
of purity as a fraction in lowest terms.

5 7 5 7

A) 7 B) 5 C) 12 D) 12

Determine if the number is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, and/or 10. If it is not divisible by any of these, then answer
"None".
21) 30 21)
A) 2, 3, 5, 6, 10 B) 2, 3, 5, 10 C) 2,3,5,6 D) None

22) 1368 22)

A) 2,3,4,8 B)2,3,4,6,8,9 C) None D) 2,3,6,8

23) 181 23)

A) 3 B)3,5 C) None D)3,6

24) 2257 24)

A) None B)3,6 C) 3,5 D) 3

Write an equivalent fraction using the given denominator.

3
25) = 25)
6 24
A) 18 B) 72 C) 12 D) 3
3
26) 5 = 175 26)
A) 105 B) 15 C) 7 D) 210

21
27) 11 = 77 27)

A) 77 B) 7 C) 294 D) 147

8 A
28) 5 = 30 )
6 B) 30 C) 96 D) 48
28)
 3
29) 4 = 28 29)
A) 21 B) 42 C) 28 D) 7

Find the least common denominator for the given set of denominators.
30)84, 378 30)
A) 42 B) 1512 C) 2268 D) 756

31)135, 56, 150 31)

A) 1050 B) 3780 C) 37,800 D) 7560

32)24, 54, 9 32)

A) 108 B) 72 C) 216 D) 54

33)112, 96 33)
A) 672 B) 336 C) 1344 D) 224

34)60, 20, 70 34)

A) 420 B) 210 C) 60 D) 140

35)7, 14, 21, 36 35)

A) 252 B) 280 C) 259 D) 112

36)6, 8, 10, 12 36)

A) 108 B) 120 C) 90 D) 60

37)7, 14, 28, 49 37)

A) 196 B) 147 C) 392 D) 49

Add. Write the answer in lowest terms.

2 2
38) + 38)

5 15
8 4 1 41

A) 15 B) 15 C) 5 D) 75

1 2
39) + 39)
3 9
16 1 5 1
A) 27 B) 4 C) 9 D) 3
4 7
40) + 40)
15 10
29 11 29 11
B) 25 D) 150
A) 5 C) 30
 41)
5+5 41)
9 6
2 7 5
C) 5 D) 27
A) 3 B) 1 18

10 1
42) + 42)

11 9
1 1
A) 1 2 B) 11
C) 520 D) 9
99 20

Add. Write your answer in lowest terms.

43)
1+4+5 43)

3 7 6
31 5 5 D) 13
11
16

A) 1 42 B) 8 C) 63

26 1 27 44)

44) 15 + 8 + 10
58 29
67 10
A) 4 B) 420 C) 65 D)
120 13 3000

7 25 11 45)
45) 3 + 21 + 9
47 5
1 34
C) 463 D) 112
A) 23 2 B) 1701

46)
46)
8
15
7
10
4
+
5

8 13
19 1

C) 215 D) 1 15
A) 30 B) 2 30
 47) 47)
7
12
5
8
1
+
6

13 1 11 3

A) 24 B) 1 6 C) 124 D) 18

Subtract. Write the answer in lowest terms.

81
48)
48) 9-2
18 7 5 5
A) 7 B) 18 C) 3 D) 54

8 4 49)
49) 9 - 7
20 4 63 20
C) 20 D) 9
A) 63 B) 63

1 3 50)
50) 2 - 19
38 13 13 1
C) 38 D) 152
A) 13 B) 2

22 5 51)

51) 25 - 11
275 234
117 6
C)
117 D) 25
A) 275 B) 275

1 2 52)
52) 15-35
1
1 1 C) 105 D) 105
A) 3 B) 1575

53) 3
5 A) 14
7

- 21
 47) 53) 47)

4
B) 9
 1
C) D)
7 4
7
 54) 54)
4
5

- 20
3

7 3 1
A) 2013 B) 10 C) 5 D) 20

55) 55)
7
12

- 16
1

1 3 1
A) 4825 B) C) D)
6 16 8

56) 56)
5
6

-3
1

1 1 3
A) 16 B) 2 C) 2 D) 4

Solve the problem.

57) Ellen is knitting a scarf with one 2

1 -inch blue stripe, one 3 1 -inch green stripe, and one 6-inch 57)
2 3
white stripe. How wide is the scarf?

6 7 17 5

A) 71 in. B) 3 17 in. C) 58 in. D) 11 6 in.

58) While shopping for a party, June bought 6

1 pounds of hamburger, 1 1 pounds of chicken, and 58)
3 2

3
18 pounds of ham. How much meat did she buy?
19 4 5 24
A) 42 lb B) 2 19 lb C) 9 24 lb D) 221 lb

59) A laminated lab bench has 1

2 inches of plywood, 3 1 inches of pressed board, and 9 inch of 59)

5 2 11
formica. What is the thickness of the lab bench?
110 1 2 79
C) in. D) 5 in.
A) 629 in. B) 12 in. 3 110
 7
60)
60) To obtain a certain shade of paint, Peter mixed 6 gallons of white paint with 1 9 gallons of brown

and 2 gallons of blue paint. How much paint did he have?

9 10 21 7

A) 88 gal B) 221 gal C) 52 gal D) 9 9 gal

61) Jeff studied math for 7

1 hours, history for 3 4 hours, and physics for 5 hours. How long did he 61)
2 5

study?
10 3 9 10

A) 163 hr B) 16 10 hr C) 4 10 hr D) 49 hr

62) Peter must practice the piano 3

1 hours per week. He has already practiced 1 2 hours. How many 62)
5 3
more hours does he need to practice?

8 6 2 1

A) 1 15 hr B) 11 hr C) 4 11 hr D) 5 hr

63) A nail 2
3 inches long is driven into a board 1 3 inches thick. How much of the nail protrudes from 63)
4 5
the other side of the board?
1 3 5 3
A) 3 in. B) 20 in. C) 2 9 in. D) 1 20 in.

64) Jake wants to work 4

1 hours at his part-time job this week. He has already worked 1 4 hours. 64)
3 5
How many more hours does he need to work?
1 4 3 8

A) 2 hr B) 15 hr C) 4 4 hr D) 2 15 hr

65) There were 24

1 yards of fabric on a bolt. After a customer bought 3 2 yards of fabric, how many 65)
2 3
yards were left?
3 1 5
A) 7 yd B) 6 yd C) 25 yd D) 20 yd
5 3 6

66) A tank contains 2

3 gallons of water. Its capacity is 3 4 gallons. How much more water is needed to 66)
4 5

fill it?
2 8 1 1
A) 5 gal B) 9 gal C) 1 20 gal D) 2 3 gal
The graph represents the 24-hour day of a small -business owner.

1 1
Sleep Work
4 3

1
Free time
24
1
Eat 12
1 1
Travel 8 Worry 6

67) What fraction of the day is spent in work, worry, and travel? 67)

2 7 5 1
A) 3 B) 12 C) 8 D) 2

68) How many hours of the day are spent in work, worry, and travel? 68)
A) 14 hours B) 16 hours C) 12 hours D) 15 hours

69) What activity takes the most time? How many hours? 69)
A) Work, 12 hours B) Work, 8 hours C) Sleep, 8 hours D) Work, 10 hours

70) What fraction of the day is spent in sleeping, eating, and free time? 70)

3 7 1 5
A) 8 B) 24 C) 2 D) 12

71) How many hours of the day are given to free time and eating? 71)
A) 3 hours B) 4 hours C) 1 hour D) 2 hours

72) If "worry" is another form of work, what fraction of the day is spent working? 72)

2 1 7 1
A) 3 B) 3 C) 12 D) 2

73) How many hours of the day are spent in travel and free time? 73)
A) 6 hours B) 5 hours C) 3 hours D) 4 hours

74) What fraction of the day is spent in free time and travel? 74)

2 1 1 1
A) B) C) D)
9 4 6 12
Add. Write the answer in lowest terms.
75) 75)

12 3
1

+ 11 5
3

14 14
A) 22 B) 24 C) 23 1415 D) 12
14
15

15 15

76) 76)

16 8
3

+ 18 8
1

1 1
A) 35 B) 16 C) 34 12 D) 33 2
1
2 2

77) 77)
4
9 9

5
+ 4 9

4 D) 14
4
A) 13 B) 5 C) 14
9 9

78) 78)
4
4 9

6
+ 7 7

32 19 C) 5
15 D) 48
7
A) B) 12
63 63 16 16

10
 79) 79)

2
26 3

+ 17 2
1

1 3
A) 12 B) 21 1
C) 44 6 D) 75 57
2 7

80) 80)
2
17 7

3
16 7

+ 14 7
3

1 1 1
A) 49 B) 47 C) 48
7 7 D) 487

81) 81)
3
35
4
10 7
4
+ 5

A) 14 35 B) 15 35 C) 14 21 D) 13 35

Subtract. Write the answer in lowest terms.

82) 82)
7
2 9

- 2 2
1

3 5 2 D)
5
C) 1
A) 3 5 B) 27
3 18

11
 83) 83)

1
13 9

- 398

A)
2
B) 9 1 C) 15 2 D) 16
2
9 9 9 9

84) 84)
6
14 7

- 638

53 27 56
A) 67 7
6
B) 56 C) 856 D) 475

85) 85)

9 42
36

- 9 3530

1 6 6
B) 0
A) 6 C) 7 D) 35

86) 86)
10

4
-4 7

A) 6 7
4 B) 5 37 3 3
C) 9 7 D) 6 7

Solve the problem.

5 1
87) Ellen is knitting a scarf with one 7-inch blue stripe, one 2 -inch green stripe, and one 2 -inch 87)

6 5
white stripe. How wide is the scarf?
30 13 3 1

A) 361 in. B) 42 in. C) 3 13 in. D) 12 30 in.

12
12
88) While shopping for a party, June bought 2
1 pounds of hamburger, 3 3 pounds of chicken, and 88)
3 4
1
9 2 pounds of ham. How much meat did she buy?
1 7 12
A) 4 lb B) 4 lb C) 15 12 lb D) 187 lb

1 2 9
89) A laminated lab bench has 3 inches of plywood, 1 inches of pressed board, and inch of 89)

4 9 10
formica. What is the thickness of the lab bench?
180 10 23 67

in.
A) 967 B) 1 23 in. C) 33 in. D) 5 180 in.
2
90) To obtain a certain shade of paint, Peter mixed 6 gallons of white paint with 2 gallons of brown 90)
3
1

and 1 9 gallons of blue paint. How much paint did he have?

17 9 6 7

A) 40 gal B) 88 gal C) 2 17 gal D) 9 9 gal

91) Jeff studied math for 1

1 hours, history for 6 hours, and physics for 5 1 hours. How long did he 91)
2 3

study?
13 6 5 1

A) 40 hr B) 77 hr C) 12 6 hr D) 3 13 hr

92) Peter must practice the piano 3

3 hours per week. He has already practiced 2 5 hours. How many 92)
5 6
more hours does he need to practice?

1 23 1 1
A) 11 hr B) 30 hr C) 30 hr D) 2 11 hr

93) A nail 7
1 inches long is driven into a board 3 1 inches thick. How much of the nail protrudes from 93)
2 4
the other side of the board?

1 1 1 2
A) 4 4 in. B) 3 in. C) 4 in. D) 5 3 in.

94) Jake wants to work 2

3 hours at his part-time job this week. He has already worked 1 4 hours. 94)
4 5
How many more hours does he need to work?

13
13
 1 1 19 2
A) 2 9 hr B) 10 hr C) 20 hr D) 9 hr

15
15
 95) There were 5
4 yards of fabric on a bolt. After a customer bought 3 3 yards of fabric, how many 95)
5 4
yards were left?
7 5 1 5

A) 10 yd B) 1 9 yd C) 2 20 yd D) 4 9 yd

96) A tank contains 2

1 gallons of water. Its capacity is 3 1 gallons. How much more water is needed to 96)
4 5

fill it?
7 1 7 19

A) 20 gal B) 2 9 gal C) 9 gal D) 20 gal

Perform the operation and reduce to lowest terms.
11
97)
97) 4×3
3 1 4 1
A) 11 B) 12 C) 3 D) 8

2 2 98)
98) 3 × 3
2 2 4

A) 9 B) 3 C) 9 D) 1

1 7 99)
99) 2 × 8
7 1 23 7

A) 16 B) 48 C) 28 D) 4

100) 3 2 × 9 100)
3
2
A) 12 3 B) 81 C) 27 D) 33

5 7
101)
101) 57 ×78
35
A) 35 B) 46 C) 45 D) 47
56

1 2
102) 42 ×23 102)

1
A) 11 B) 12 C) 13 D) 8 6

14
 13
103) 4 ×614
103)

5 13 7
A) 27 7 B) 10 57 C) 24 D) 27
14 7

1 4 1
104) 2 × 5 × 2 104)
3
1 2 1

A) 5
B) 20 C) 5 D) 5

105) 4 ×2 ×
2 3
105)
9 8
1
A) 23
23 1 1
B) 372 C) 24 24 D) 3 3
2
106) 3 ×5 ×
2
5 5 106)

A) 151 4
4 4
B) 85
C) 15 5 D) 6 5

51
107) 8÷5 107)
1
6 1 5
A) 8
B) 13 C) 38 D) 8
2 11
108) 3÷12 108)
2
5 8 11
A) 33 B) 6 C) 11 D) 18
4 7
109) 9 ÷111
109)
2
22 1 8
A) 81 B) 81 D) 11
C) 110
110) 1 ÷2
9 1
102 110)
19 19 1 3

A) 200 B) C) 26 D) 44
25
1
111) 24 ÷7
111)

9 9 3 5

A) 28 B) 56
C) 15 D) 3
4 6
15
 1 1
112) 2 ÷ 21 112)

3 3
7 7 1 7
A) 49 9 B) 192 C) 5 21 D) 64

7
113)
113) 7 9 ÷ 10
23 71 70 7

A) 30 B) 90 C) 89 D) 9

2 1
114) 3 ÷ 114)
9 9
1
A) 28 B) 27 2 C) 30 D) 29

8
115) 3 ÷2
4
115)
9 5
7 4 7 7
A) 2 18 B) 1 9 C) 1 18 D) 1 17

3
116) 5 ÷5
1
116)

4 3
3 5 5 5
A) 1 32 B) 2 64 C) 1 64 D) 1 63

Find the time-and-a-half rate for the regular rate.

117) $8 117)
A) $12.00 B) $14.00 C) $11.20 D) $16.00

118) $17 118)

A) $25.50 B) $34.00 C) $29.75 D) $23.80

119) $15.50 119)

A) $21.70 B) $23.25 C) $31.00 D) $27.13

120) $14.50 120)

A) $29.00 B) $21.75 C) $20.30 D) $25.38

121) $82.00 121)

A) $143.50 B) $114.80 C) $164.00 D) $123.00
Solve the problem. 34
5
122) A small company sells stock for 8 8 dollars per share. How much will 56 shares cost?

1616
 122)
A) 61 dollars B) 483 dollars C) 56 dollars D) 6 dollars
69

1717
 1
123)
123) How many pieces of string 3 4 inches long can be cut from a 72 inch piece of string? Round answer

to the nearest piece of string.

A) 234 pieces B) 22 pieces C) 55 pieces D) None of these

1
124) Tim needs to apply 3 2 gallons of herbicide per acre of soybeans. How many gallons of herbicide 124)

are needed for 164 acres?

6 1
A) 46 gallons B) 574 gallons C) 123 gallons D) 125 gallons
7 2

125) On a certain map, 1 inch equals 24 miles. How many miles are in 5 4 inches?
3 125)

3 4
A) 33 miles B) 30 miles C) 4 miles D) 138 miles

4 23
1
126)
126) A technician has readings that take 3 3 minutes each to read and record. How many readings can

be completed in 180 minutes?

A) 181 readings B) 54 readings C) 600 readings D) 7 readings

127) The floor of a rectangular room is to be tiled with 1 foot square tiles along a 10 5 foot wall. How 127)
3 8
many tiles will be needed along the wall?

5 7 13
A) 35 tiles B) 30 tiles C) 31 tiles D) 3 tiles

8 8 24
Write as a fraction in lowest terms.
128) 0.56 128)
14 14 28 1

A) 125 B) 25 C) 25 D) 56

129) 0.166 129)

83 1 83 83

A) 250 B) 166 C) 500 D) 1000

130) 0.03 130)

3 3 1 3

A) 200 B) 50 C) 6 D) 100

1818
131) 0.00225 131)
9 9 9 9

A) 400 B) 8000 C) 2000 D) 4000

1919
Convert the fraction to a decimal. If a division does not come out evenly, round the answer to the nearest thousandth.
5
132) 6 132)
A) 0.833 B) 0.083 C) 8.33 D) 1.2

39
133) 40 133)
A) 0.098 B) 9.75 C) 0.975 D) 1.026

73
134) 85 134)
A) 0.086 B) 0.859 C) 8.59 D) 1.164

SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.

Provide an appropriate response.

135) In your own words, explain what a fraction means. 135)

2
136) Explain the meaning of 3 . Use a pizza in your explanation. 136)

137) Explain, in your own words, what is the least common multiple of two numbers. 137)

138) Explain why, when rewriting a fraction with a different denominator, the fraction can be 138)
multiplied by another fraction whose numerator and denominator are the same.

139) Explain what it means to rename a fraction. 139)

140) What is wrong if two fractions are added and the result is expressed as a whole number 140)
and an improper fraction?

141) Tell what you would do if you added the fraction parts of mixed numbers and the result 141)
was greater than 1.

142) Is this statement correct or incorrect? 142)

Explain.

1 1
34 =3∙ 4

143) Explain in your own words the steps you would take to divide fractions. 143)

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Answer Key
Testname: UNTITLED2

1) D
2) A
3) D
4) D
5) B
6) B
7) C
8) A
9) C
10) A
11) A
12) A
13) A
14) D
15) A
16) A
17) B
18) C
19) D
20) D
21) A
22) B
23) C
24) A
25) C
26) A
27) D
28) D
29) A
30) D
31) C
32) C
33) A
34) A
35) A
36) B
37) A
38) A
39) C
40) C
41) B
42) A
43) A
44) A
45) C
46) B
47) D
48) B
49) A
50) C

19
Answer Key
Testname: UNTITLED2

51) A
52) D
53) A
54) A
55) A
56) C
57) D
58) C
59) D
60) D
61) B
62) A
63) D
64) D
65) D
66) C
67) C
68) D
69) B
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him to vex me," and the lovely face, with its dancing hazel eyes and
lilies and roses, looked quite earnest for a moment.
"But, child, thee ain't in love with this Earle Winans? Thee ain't
thinking of marrying him, dear?"
Willful Ladybird smiled and blushed, and answered roguishly:
"Why, Auntie Prue, of course I intend to get married some time; I
don't want to be an old maid like you; but I mean to marry the man
that loves me best."
"The one that loves thee best? But, child, how can thee guess that
out of thirteen lovers?"
"Oh, I have a grand plan to test all my lovers—at the picnic to-
morrow!" and the fair face dimpled all over with mischievous
laughter.
"Are they all going—the thirteen? Thee will not have any peace,
child, and the other girls will be jealous."
"I don't care. It's such fun to have so many admirers showing me
attention at the same time," laughed the little incarnation of sunny
beauty and unconscious cruelty.
"But it's cruel to make the young men suffer so!" hazarded the kind-
hearted old lady, and again the girl laughed archly:
"Suffer? Oh, pshaw! they need to have the conceit taken out of
them," and Ladybird began to run over the category of the faults
and foibles of her admirers, making such sarcastic hits that the old
Quakeress shook with silent laughter and gave up her futile lecture
on coquetry.
But when the girl paused for breath, all rosy and laughing, Aunt Prue
exclaimed:
"Thee hasn't said a word about thy last lover—about Earle Winans."
"My thirteenth lover. Oh, no, I have no fault to find with him. He is
simply perfect," cried Ladybird, as innocently as if she had not
guessed that Aura Stanley was listening behind her parlor blinds to
every word.
Aura was listening, her eyes wrathful, her cheeks burning.
But she heard no more just then.
After that saucy parting shot Ladybird sat down on the porch steps
like a little child, with her round, dimpled chin in the hollow of her
soft little hand, and fell to watching the rosy sunset as the god of
day sank to rest behind the purple western hills. Her face wore a
pensive cast that made her look positively angelic. And yet she was
actually meditating a deed of girlish diablerie on the morrow, the
naughty little coquette!
The next day was perfect—a May day, clear and golden, and when
the fervid sunbeams began to dry the dew-tears from the eyes of
the blue violets in the grass, the gay picnic party assembled in the
Rosemont orchard by the river, the scene of the day's festivities.
All the prettiest girls of the village were there, and not one of
Ladybird's lovers had stayed away. And how they envied handsome
Earle Winans, who was her special companion for the day, while
they had to be content with other girls—pretty enough, to be sure—
but—"not the rose."
Aura Stanley had come with Clarence Grey, but she knew she was
second choice, that he had asked Ladybird first, and she could
hardly control her bitter resentment.
Ladybird gave her a saucy nod and smile when they met, but Aura
averted her head in jealous anger when she saw how lovely her rival
looked in her white flannel suit with the blue silk blouse showing
under the open white jacket, and the white sailor hat crowning the
little head, with its fluffy rings of golden brown.
"Miss Stanley would not speak to you—why?" Earle Winans asked in
surprise.
"Because I teased her yesterday. I—I—told her I'd be wearing that
ring of yours within a week," and Ladybird gave him a coquettish
side glance from her dazzling eyes that made his heart leap and his
cheek burn.
She was playing with fire, this thoughtless girl, for Earle Winans'
heart knew how to love with burning passion.
His voice trembled with emotion as he said eagerly:
"Would you like to have the ring, Miss Conway?"
"I, Mr. Winans? Why, certainly not. I was only teasing Aura; she
seemed to prize it so highly and declared she would throw it in the
river before I should have it," asserted Ladybird, gayly.
"I will get the ring for you any minute you say you'll wear it,
Ladybird. You know what I mean—as my betrothed," murmured her
handsome young lover eagerly.
Ladybird blushed rosy red, then smiled brightly and whispered back:
"I'll give you my answer to-morrow."
And all his pleading would not induce her to shorten his probation.
"To-morrow—you must wait till to-morrow," she repeated, but her
drooping eyes and rosy blushes made him almost certain what her
answer would be.
Aura Stanley watched the lovers with a jealous pang, for it was a
cruel blow to lose Earle, whom she had hoped to captivate, not only
because she loved him, but because he was the son of a great man
and had a fortune in his own right. She was ambitious and longed to
reign a social queen.
By some clever maneuvering she managed to get a tête-à-tête by
the river bank with Earle that day, and then she said coldly:
"Ah, really, I must return your ring, Mr. Winans."
She held the glittering circlet toward him on the end of her taper
finger, and somehow, just as he was about to accept the ring, it
slipped off Aura's finger, flashed like an evil eye in the sunlight, then
rolled into the river.
"Oh, I am so sorry—but it was an accident," cried Aura quickly.
The young man's eyes flashed with anger, and he cried with stinging
contempt:
"Oh, no, you did it on purpose, because you thought I meant to give
it to Miss Conway. But it does not matter; I will buy her a prettier
one to-morrow."
Aura sprang to her feet, her eyes blazing, her cheeks crimson, and
exclaimed in a loud, angry voice:
"You villain! How dare you insult me like that?"
CHAPTER XIII.
LADYBIRD'S LOVE-TEST.
 "Proud young head, so lightly lifted,
Crowned with waves of gleaming hair;
Eyes that flash with tell-tale mischief,
Fearless eyes to do and dare;
Cheeks that start to sudden flame,
Willful mouths that none can tame."

—Elaine Goodale.

Those angry words to Aura Stanley had barely passed Earle Winans'
lips ere he regretted them, although he knew quite well that she had
deserved them, and had dropped the ring purposely, as she had told
Ladybird she would do.
But he regretted his exhibition of temper, and was about to
apologize, when her angry words arrested the speech on his lips.
"You villain! How dare you insult me like that!"
Although they seemed to be alone on the river-bank, there were
several young men near by under a tree, and, catching Aura's angry
denunciation, they hurried to the spot.
Aura turned quickly toward them, exclaiming maliciously:
"Gentlemen, Earle Winans has insulted me, and if I had a brother to
take my part he should knock the coward down!"
All of these young gentlemen admired Ladybird Conway, and envied
Earle Winans because she had shown a preference for him.
Accordingly they were eager to take Aura's part, just to humiliate
their dangerous rival. The foremost one therefore sprang with fierce
agility at Earle just as he was rising from his seat on the grassy
bank, and with a stinging blow knocked him backward to the
ground.
There was laughter—spiteful from Aura, appreciative from the men—
but it did not last long.
Earle Winans scarcely touched the earth ere he rebounded like a
ball, and flew directly at Jack Tennant, his adversary, a big, burly
fellow, with fists like iron.
Earle was slender, but he was an athlete too, and with a rush he
caught his assailant around the waist with both arms, lifted him
almost above his head, and hurled him with superb strength far out
into the river, firing after him this parting shot:
"There, my lad! a cold bath will cool your temper!" Then he turned a
scornful smile on the others. "Are there any more who wish to play
the rôle of Miss Stanley's brothers?" he sneered.
"Oh, no; the quarrel is between you and Jack Tennant," they hastily
replied, having no desire to be made ridiculous like their hasty
friend, who was now swimming ashore, his picnic toggery, sash and
flannels, dripping and ruined, but with his rage not yet cooled, for as
he clambered up the bank he exclaimed:
"Mr. Earle Winans, I will fight this quarrel out with you now."
Earle's handsome face flushed with anger, but, holding in his temper,
he answered with cool scorn:
"Your pardon, but it would not be quite proper to settle it in a lady's
presence. I will send a friend to you to-morrow."
"A duel! Oh, Heaven!" cried Aura, in a panic of fear, but no one
seemed to notice her as she sank trembling on the grassy bank.
Mark Gwinn exclaimed kindly:
"I'll drive you home for your dry clothes, Jack, and we can be back
in a jiffy."
They were all turning away, but Earle Winans arrested them with
one stern word:
"Wait!"
They all turned back to him in impatient surprise.
Pale with anger, he pointed to Aura, crouching on the green, flowery
bank.
"Miss Stanley, you must now repeat to these gentlemen who
defended you the words of my insult."
Flashing on Earle a glance of sullen resentment, she obeyed.
"I dropped his diamond ring into the water—and he said I did it on
purpose."
"Was that all?" exclaimed a wondering voice.
"That was all," Aura answered indignantly, and every one turned
away and left Aura alone with the bitter consciousness that they
despised her, while as for Jack Tennant, he felt decidedly blue at the
prospect of a duel with the fiery Earle Winans for the sake of a girl
he didn't care two straws for, as he, like all the others, adored the
bewitching Miss Conway.
But Aura had carried out her threat to Ladybird. The beautiful ring
was in the river, and would never shine on the little white hand of
her lovely rival. Her jealous malice was gratified, at least, and she
cared very little if Earle fought a duel and lost his life. She would
rather see him dead than married to that little coquette Ladybird.
Meanwhile Miss Conway, all unconscious of what had happened at
the lower end of the orchard, was sitting on a mossy throne under a
wide-spreading apple tree, holding mimic court. Her adoring subjects
had woven a wreath of apple blossoms, and crowned her Queen of
May.
"Somebody give us a song, please. It's a day for love, and poetry,
and song!" she cried gayly.
"Don't you think the birds sing sweetest, dear?" asked a fair girl by
her side, one that she called her maid of honor.
But the girl under the next nearest tree—the girl with the guitar—
thought differently. She touched her instrument with soft, loving
fingers, and her tender voice was so low and sweet that it seemed
to blend with the bird songs, the soft rustle of the leaves, and the
ripple of the river.

"Oh, darling, when you love me,

The sky is soft and bright;
Life asks no troubled questions,
The world is safe and right.
I whisper happy secrets
With every flower and tree,
And lark and thrush and linnet
Sing all their songs for me!

"Oh, darling, when you chide me,

The world is dumb and cold;
The mists creep up the valley,
And all the year is old;
The fields are black and sodden,
The shivering woods are sere!
I see no face in heaven,
And death is very near!

"Oh, darling, always love me,

The song-birds look to you;
The skies await your bidding,
To dome the world with blue.
Then keep the rose in glory,
And make the swallow stay,
And hold the year forever
At summer's crowning day!"

While the pretty girl was singing, Earle Winans came up silently and
stood by the tree, looking down at Ladybird with the apple-blossom
wreath on her shining hair.
Ladybird's arch, pretty face had grown pensive while she listened to
the song, and her tiny white hand, with its babyish dimples, played
absently with a branch of pink crab-apple blooms that lay in her lap.
She was more lovely than any picture ever painted, and Earle's heart
swelled with a passionate longing to catch the exquisite young
creature in his arms and press all that budding beauty against his
ardent breast.
Ladybird knew that he was there, but she would not turn her head;
and when the song came to an end she sighed and murmured
softly:
"I wonder what this love is like of which poets sing, and lovers rave,
and spring-birds warble. It must be very sweet."
"My darling, let me teach you all its sweetness," murmured Earle's
voice in her ear, but though a swift blush burned her face, she
shrugged her willful shoulders, and continued in a louder voice, that
all around might hear:
"If I ever do fall in love, it will be with a hero, with some man who
has done something great, or perhaps risked his life to save mine. I
don't believe I could ever love a common, everyday sort of man, like
the ones I know, unless he turned out to be a hero. Then I could
worship him!"
And just a few hours later those words, spoken in such artless
innocence, came back to the heart of every man there—came back
with a thrill of love and hope.
She had stolen away from them all a short time before, and just as
they were wondering what had become of the little sprite, they
heard some one singing blithely on the river.
It was Ladybird in a little blue boat, rowing herself with consummate
skill, the water falling in silvery sparkles from the light oars. Her
pretty face glowed rosily, and her eyes danced with fun as she trilled
a gay little boating song. It was the bonniest sight ever seen on the
broad, beautiful river flowing between its banks of spring-time
green.
Every one ran down to the bank—every one but Aura Stanley, who
sulked beneath a tree.
"Take me in, Ladybird—take me!" called one after another eagerly;
but she cried out saucily:
"I will take one of the gentlemen to row me, because my arms are
getting tired."
All in a minute followed the terrible accident.
In the middle of the river where she was rowing it was deep and
dangerous, but she seemed to forget that in her joyous excitement;
and, turning the boat too quickly toward the shore, it careened over,
and Ladybird fell into the water. One long shriek of fear and terror,
and the rippling waves of the beautiful river closed sullenly over the
little head!
A cry of grief arose from fifty throats, but it was speedily turned to a
cheer, for—Splash! splash! splash! came the sounds, too fast to
count, and twelve out of Ladybird's thirteen lovers had leaped boldly
into the river to save her precious life.
 CHAPTER XIV.
"LIKE DIAN'S KISS."

"Oh, think when a hero is sighing,

What danger in such an adorer!
What woman would dream of denying
The hand that lays laurels before her?
No heart is so guarded around
But the smile of a victor would take it;
No bosom can slumber so sound
But the trumpet of glory will wake it."

Rosemont was one of the most ideally beautiful summer houses in

Fauquier County.
It was a large white mansion, in villa style, surrounded by flower-
gardens and pleasure-grounds, with a charming mountain view, and,
nearer home, the silvery windings of the Rappahannock River
forming the southern boundary of the large estate.
On the afternoon of the picnic Precious Winans swung lazily in a
hammock on the long front piazza, while her favorite, Kay, the
immense mastiff, lay within touch of the tiny white hand that every
little while reached down to caress the tawny head.
At some distance away Mistress Norah, the good-natured nurse, sat
cozily in an armchair, knitting lace.
Along the lattice-work that shaded the end of the piazza clambered a
great honeysuckle vine loaded with odorous, creamy-white blooms.
Here the busy little bees hummed ceaselessly, bright-winged
butterflies hovered, and two robins flew in and out of the branches
with straws for a nest. The golden sunshine sifting through the
leaves in light and shade on the girl's white gown and sunny head
seemed like the spirit of peace spreading its brooding wings over the
lovely, quiet scene.
Precious had been reading a book of poems. It lay open now under
one white hand, and with half-shut, dreamy eyes, she was recalling
the last lines she had read:

"Like Dian's kiss, unasked, unsought,

Love gives itself, but is not bought;
Nor voice, nor sound betrays
Its deep impassioned gaze.

"It comes—the beautiful, the free,

The crown of all humanity,
In silence and alone,
To seek the elected one."

The velvety blue of the young girl's eyes looked very soft and tender
under the long-fringed lashes that were so dark by contrast with the
sunshine of her hair.
She was wondering when love would come to her, and if she would
find it sweet.
"Ethel is in love, and she seems very happy," she thought. "And
there is Earle—he seems grave and thoughtful lately; and my wise
nurse, Norah, declares it's because he is losing his heart to a lovely
girl down in the village, a little creature with hazel eyes like stars,
and a dimpled face all lilies and roses. I would like to see this pretty
girl, only Norah keeps me almost a prisoner, lest I should be
kidnaped again. I asked Earle about her, and he laughed and
colored, and said perhaps he would bring her to see me some day."
She lifted her voice, and cried out:
"Norah, I wish we could go down to the picnic. I can catch voices on
the breeze—voices and laughter. They seem to be having a lovely
time, and it is so poky here! Earle is there, you know. Do let us go,
too—you and me and Kay!"
"Oh no, my dear, not for the world! The doctor said you were to be
very quiet here."
"But I am quite well again. See how plump my cheeks are, and how
rosy!"
"But, my Precious, you are very nervous yet. In your dreams you
start and cry out about the fire, and the dreadful old woman, and
your sister Ethel."
"What about Ethel?" demanded Precious quickly, the delicate color
flying from her cheeks.
Nurse Norah answered placidly:
"In your dreams, dearie, it always seems as if Ethel had been with
you that day when you were struggling to get out of the fire. Once
you cried out, 'Ethel, Ethel, the rope is finished, and you are going
down first, then I will follow. And you will catch me if I fall!' Then
again you cried: 'The rope has broken. Ethel, are you hurt? No, no, I
cannot jump now! I am lost! lost! lost!'"
The beautiful eyes of Precious grew wild and startled.
"Oh, what strange dreams!" she cried tremblingly. "I wish you had
not listened, Norah; they were only dreams!"
"Yes, I know, my pet, but they show that you are not quite strong
yet, and it is better not to go about into society until you are well
again. But I think you ought to have some young girls to visit you,
and I will ask your brother to bring that little star-eyed village girl to
see you."
"She is here now!" cried Earle's voice, with a ripple of laughter in its
low music.
They started and looked, and there he stood with a dripping figure
by his side, a girl in white flannel, bareheaded, with wet brown curls
all over her little head, and starry hazel eyes alight with laughter.
"Miss Conway has had an accident—fallen into the river, Precious,
and I brought her up here for some of your dry clothes, also to
make your acquaintance, as I knew you were lonely," explained
Earle easily.
"You poor darling!" cried Precious, and her heart went out to the
little beauty in a swift rush of tenderness. She took Ladybird's hand.
"Come, let us go upstairs. My clothes will fit you, I know!"
Earle detained them a moment.
"I am going down to the telegraph office a moment. Please stay
here till I come back, Miss Conway. I will take you home in due
time."
"I thank you," Ladybird answered with a stiff little courtesy, then she
followed Precious and Norah upstairs.
Some dry garments were soon found, and Norah took the wet ones
away.
"You shall have them nice and dry directly," she said kindly, but as
she took her way kitchenward, she mused: "This pretty girl reminds
me very, very much of the lovely Miss Clendenon, Mrs. Winans' girl-
friend, that afterward married Mr. Bruce Conway. This one is like her,
but it could not be her daughter, for the little one she named for my
mistress, Grace Willard, died before it was a year old, and poor Mrs.
Conway, sweet little soul, died herself two years after, and I never
heard that she left a child, although to be sure we were abroad
then, and when we got home all the Conways were dead but Mr.
Bruce, and he had disappeared. He always was a rolling stone."
Meanwhile the two young girls, left alone in the beautiful airy room
upstairs, proceeded to get acquainted.
"I don't feel any worse from my ducking, dear, but I'll lie on the bed
awhile and rest," cried Ladybird, rumpling up her wet curls with
taper fingers.
"Do, dear, and tell me all about it. How did you happen to fall in?"
asked Precious.
"It's a long story, Miss Winans," laughingly.
"Call me Precious," said the girl sweetly.
"Thank you, I will; but is that your real name? I never heard of any
one named Precious."
"My real name is Pearl; but my mamma called me Precious Pearl so
much that it became shortened at last to Precious."
"And my name is Lulu, but my dear mamma died soon after I was
born, and then papa could not bear to hear that name spoken,
because it had been hers. So they began with Ladybird when I was
little, and it has been my name ever since, so I will call you Precious
if you will call me Ladybird."
"Very well. And now, Ladybird, you will tell me how you came to fall
in the water."
She saw the hazel eyes flash with laughter, and Ladybird cried:
"Oh, Precious, will you keep it secret? Will you never, never tell?"
"Never!" answered Precious promptly, and then her guest said gayly:
"I was in a little row-boat on the river, and I fell into the water. They
all thought it was an accident, but—you're never to tell any one, you
know—I did it purposely. I fell in for them to jump in and rescue
me."
"But why?" queried Precious, with astonished blue eyes.
"I will tell you," answered the little madcap, with a silvery peal of
laughter. "I have several lovers, Precious, and I wanted to test their
love. I thought the one that loved me best would jump in after me."
"And did he, Ladybird?"
"They all jumped, Precious!"
"All? How many?"
"Twelve," answered Ladybird, with a little moue of actual disgust.
Then the astonishment of the other girl's face moved her to mocking
laughter.
"You darling girl! how surprised you look! But I don't blame you. It
was very silly for them all to jump in after me! I shall never forget
when I lay on the bank after I was rescued, how funny they all
looked in their wet clothes, as they crowded around me!" and she
laughed ungratefully.
"But—twelve lovers!—I never heard of a girl having so many!" and
the younger girl's eyes dilated with wonder.
"Did you never have a lover, Precious?"
"No—I am too young—only sixteen," and Precious blushed at the
very thought of a lover.
"I am only seventeen, and I have a dozen. I thought I had thirteen,
but when I tested them there were but twelve," cried Ladybird,
tossing her dainty head with decided pique.
"Did—my—brother—jump in the water after you?" cried Precious
quickly.
"No, indeed—he was not a hero like the others," and Ladybird curled
a disdainful lip.
"Do you like heroes, Ladybird?"
"I adore them! If I ever marry any one, he must be brave and
grand. I couldn't love a coward!"
"I admire heroes too," cried Precious, her cheek glowing with
sudden warmth, her violet eyes shining; and then Ladybird cried
eagerly:
"You must admire Lord Chester very much, dear, for I read in the
papers how he rescued you from a burning house. It was grand, was
it not? and I suppose you will be sure to marry him some day, for
that is the way it always turns out in novels."
"You must be very romantic," answered Precious, smiling, though
the crimson blushes seemed to burn her lovely face. A moment later
she added, in a pensive tone: "I have never seen Lord Chester but
once. He is very grand and handsome, but he is my sister Ethel's
lover."
"Oh! So he saved your life for her sweet sake! She must really adore
him for his bravery; but I wish he would fall in love with you now,
you beautiful darling!" cried impulsive Ladybird, entirely disregarding
Ethel's claim in her love of romantic denouements.
Norah came in just then with Ladybird's clothing nicely dried and
pressed, and by the time she was dressed, and the fluffy curls dried,
Earle Winans returned to take her home. As it was almost sunset,
she took an affectionate leave of her new friend, promising to keep
up the pleasant friendship begun to-day, neither of them dreaming
of the untoward events that a day was to bring forth.
 CHAPTER XV.
DID A SHADOW FROM THE FUTURE FALL OVER THAT YOUNG,
DREAMING HEART?

"Like the changeful month of spring

Is my love, my lady-love;
Sunshine beams and glad birds sing,
Then a rain-cloud floats above:
So your moods change with the wind,
April-tempered lady-love;
All the sweeter to my mind,
You're a riddle, lady-love."

As Earle Winans took his seat by Ladybird in his elegant little

phaeton, she stole a quick glance at his dark, handsome face, and
wondered at the gravity of his thoughtful eyes. She did not know of
the scene with Aura that afternoon, or she would have understood
his mood.
He did not look at her nor speak to her for several minutes, and
suddenly he heard a low, half-suppressed sob.
He turned to her quickly, exclaiming:
"What is the matter, Ladybird? You are not ill from your wetting?"
But a tempest of anger was swelling in the little beauty's breast, and
her first words showed him the cause.
"You wouldn't care if I died, you great big coward!" she sobbed, and
a pearly tear dropped from her long eyelash and splashed upon her
cheek.
"Ladybird!" indignantly.
"Don't call me Ladybird! I'm Miss Conway to you ever after to-day!
You didn't care if I was drowned! You didn't jump in the river to save
me like those noble heroes! You just stood on the bank with your
arms folded, afraid of getting drowned or spoiling your nice clothes,
maybe," with a scornful glance. "Then, when the others had rescued
me, and brought me to shore, you came so coolly and made me go
up to your house with you for some dry clothes. And—and—before
to-day I had thought you were so noble, so brave!" sobbed Ladybird,
in passionate earnest, for she had plotted the little romance just to
show Aura Stanley her power over Earle, and the failure was a cruel
blow.
But Earle did not take her tirade seriously. His dark eyes twinkled
and his lips twitched with repressed laughter as he answered
significantly:
"Really, Miss Conway, I hope I am always brave enough to rescue
any one in real danger, but I don't see any heroism in wetting one's
self to rescue a girl from the river who threw herself in for fun, and
who can swim as well as anybody!"
"Fun, indeed? How dare you say it, when I was almost drowned?"
sobbed the little coquette perversely.
"Not a bit of danger!" laughed the young man, amused at her
pretense of anger. "Ah, Ladybird, no man could love you better than
I do; but, indeed, you are a vain little darling, and ought to be
ashamed of your little joke that caused the ruination of twelve good
flannel suits and sashes. Don't you know, you willful little flirt, that
they will be shrunk to the size of bathing suits? And all to gratify a
whim of yours! Ah, little one, it was cleverly done, but no one but
myself guesses it was a ruse. I saw you throw yourself out of the
boat. I saw you dive, and I remembered then your little hint about
heroes awhile before. It was all make-believe, little Miss Mischief,
even your pretense of unconsciousness, when Jack Tennant pulled
you out. As you lay on the bank I saw your eyelids twitch and your
lips curl with secret amusement. You can't deny it, Ladybird."
But Ladybird would not meet the quizzical glance of the laughing
dark eyes. Her bosom heaved with wounded pride as she thought
how Aura Stanley would triumph over her defeat. Ladybird had been
reared in a boarding-school, and had imbibed all sorts of romantic
fancies from surreptitious novels. Earle Winans' failure to realize her
ideal of a hero had almost broken her tender little heart.
So she would not be laughed or coaxed into a good humor. She
pouted charmingly and willfully, and at length she sobbed angrily:
"You may think it very amusing to tease me so, Earle Winans, but I
will make you sorry for to-day before the week is out!" and as they
drew rein just then at her father's door, she sprang hastily out on the
pavement and ran into the house without a word of thanks or good-
by.
"Whew! what a tantrum! but the dear little heart will forget and
forgive by to-morrow," thought Earle, as he drove back home to tell
Norah that he expected a guest in the morning—Lord Chester, who
would stay at Rosemont a day or two.
He did not tell her that he had telegraphed for his friend to come,
much less that he wanted him to act as his second in a duel. But
Jack Tennant's blow was one that Earle's fiery heart would never
forgive without an apology. He had determined to challenge him,
and he would not ask any of the young men in Rosemont to carry
the message. He wanted Lord Chester.
He believed that Ethel held the young nobleman's heart; he did not
dream of danger to the fair young sister whose waist he clasped
with a loving arm as she stood by him on the piazza while he told
Norah to prepare the finest rooms in the house for the coming
guest.
And there was no hint of a tragedy or sorrow in the balmy air, nor in
the sunset sky where the rosy tints faded to purple, and the full
moon rose over the sharp outline of the distant hills and flooded the
world with its silver glory.
Precious did not speak one word, but her heart thrilled with a silent
rapture as pure as the moonlight flooding the world with light.
"I shall see him—I can thank him with my own lips for saving my
life," she thought happily, and at night she sat alone at her window
when Norah believed she was asleep, thinking of the morrow, when
Ethel's lover was coming.
She thought of Ladybird too, and her romantic fancies and hero-
worship.
"It was a strange fancy that Lord Chester might some day be my
lover," she mused, and added, with an unconscious sigh: "Perhaps—
he—might—have been—only that he loved Ethel first!"
Did a shadow from the nearing future fall over that young dreaming
heart—some prescience of the pathetic truth of the poet's plaint:

"Of all sad words of tongue or pen,

The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'"

She sat long by the open window watching the beautiful night with
solemn, wide blue eyes, and a strange sadness crept over her spirit,
a loneliness never felt before. Tears came at last, tears, and low, soft
sobs.
Norah caught the sound in the next room, where she dozed upon
her pillow, and hurried in.
"What, darling! sitting up in your nightgown, catching cold at the
open window?" and she carried her in her strong arms to the bed
and piled the snowy covers over the shivering form. "Did you have
dreams that frightened you, pet?" she continued, as she warmed the
cold little hands between her own.
Precious, trying to hush her hysteric sobs, murmured faintly:
"I have never been asleep, Norah. I was sitting at the window
watching the beautiful stars, and thinking—of many things. Then I
grew sad—I do not know why—and—and the tears came. I think I
am homesick. I want papa and mamma. I have been so long away
from them."
"I will write to Mrs. Winans to-morrow, and tell her she must come
to Rosemont very soon—that you are lonely."
"Yes, I am lonely," sighed Precious, all unconscious that it was the
restlessness of an awakening young heart.
She fell asleep presently with the dew of tears still on her lashes—
slept, and dreamed fantastic dreams, in which she saw Ladybird
married to Lord Chester, and Ethel drowning in the river, and herself
and Kay perishing again in the burning house.
 CHAPTER XVI.
"OH, THAT WORD 'REGRET!'"

"Ah, rosebud mouth for kisses made,

And are you not the least afraid?
And do not know, my little one,
What mischief kisses sweet have done,
O'er all the world and through all time,
In every age and every clime?"

—D. L. Proudfit.

"I think we shall find her here under her favorite tree," said Earle
Winans as he and Lord Chester came down toward the river.
It was the morning after the picnic, and Earle had gone after
breakfast to the station to meet his friend, Lord Chester.
Precious and Norah, with the ever faithful Kay, had gone down to the
river as soon as the dew was dry on the grass.
Precious sat under an apple tree with her dog at her feet. Norah
chose another tree close by and resumed her favorite lace knitting.
It was a scene of the most exquisite beauty, and the spirit of peace
seemed brooding over the spot.
The orchard trees were pink with bloom, and the soft green grass
was studded with violets, pale yellow cowslips and golden
buttercups. Overhead arched a sky as blue as that of Italy, and in
the sweet warm sunshine the blithe birds were flitting and singing,
while the hum of bees in the may blooms blent in the music of the
river rippling along at the young girl's feet.
She had taken along a book to read, but she had not opened it yet.
She was gazing dreamily at the river, now and then throwing flowers
on the swift-flowing stream and watching them drift away out of
sight.
So the young men came upon her unawares, and when Lord Chester
saw her he started with keen delight at the lovely vision. When he
had told Ethel how much he admired her sister's portrait she had
answered that it was flattered, that Precious was not half so
beautiful.
He realized instantly that Ethel had spoken falsely that day.
Precious Winans, in her white gown and with her pearl-fair face,
velvet-blue eyes, and cloud of golden ringlets, was the most
exquisite beauty he had ever beheld. She looked like a young angel
strayed away from paradise, and when she raised to his her liquid
eyes, so clear and innocent, he saw mirrored in their depths a pure,
true soul.
Then Earle said in his most genial tone:
"Precious, this is Lord Chester. You must be very friendly with him,
for some day he will be your brother. He tells me he is engaged to
Ethel."
"I am very glad," Precious answered simply.
She rose and put out her hand to him. He clasped it a moment with
lingering pressure, and while he held it felt himself grow dizzy with a
rapture so keen it was akin to pain.

"From my swift blood that went and came,

A thousand little shafts of flame
Were shivered in my narrow frame."

He murmured something in a low voice, he scarcely knew what;

then Earle said carelessly:
"I will leave you two to entertain each other while I go over and
tease Norah a little."
He turned away and left the pair together—two young romantic
hearts in that romantic spot.
Precious stole a shy glance at her companion, and her girlish heart
thrilled with admiration for his manly beauty.
How grand and handsome he was! so tall, so graceful, his
complexion so clear and pale, his eyes such a splendid dark-gray, his
close-clipped hair such a shining chestnut brown, where it lay in
careless waves on his broad white brow.
They sat down close together, and Kay, after one or two suspicious
sniffs, threw himself on Lord Chester fawningly, recognizing him as
his comrade on the eventful occasion when their combined powers
had saved Precious from the fire.
"Kay remembers you," said Precious softly. "It was to you and him I
owed my life that night. I—I—have wished to thank you so often,
but now words fail me. Oh, Lord Chester, I cannot express my
gratitude. I was so young to die like that—to leave the beautiful gay
world!"
She spoke as if life was a great boon. She was so young and
fortunate, she did not dream of all the sorrow the world contained;
she had a horror of death, that is so welcome to many.
"Do not thank me for doing my duty. It is reward enough for me to
be sitting here looking at you and listening to you," he answered
gently, as he caressed the mastiff that fawned at his knee, and his
words were simple truth.
It gave him a keen and subtle pleasure to breathe the same air with
Precious. The sky was bluer, the air sweeter, the sunshine more
golden, the bird songs sweeter, because they two were together
there, smiling at each other.
"Tell me about papa and mamma," she said, after a moment's
silence.
"They are well. I saw them yesterday. I went to the capitol with your
mother and sister. Your father made a great speech on the tariff—
the most brilliant and telling effort I ever heard from his lips. He was
applauded to the echo. The galleries went wild."
"Dear papa. If I only had been there!" she cried, and her eyes
kindled with pride.
"In the afternoon," he continued, "I attended Mrs. Winans and Ethel
to the reception at the White House given by the president to the
cabinet ministers, senators and representatives. It was a grand
affair, and the banquet was magnificent."
"What did mamma wear? And Ethel?" she queried, with feminine
curiosity over silks and laces.
Lord Chester laughed and said:
"Very few men can describe a woman's dress. I'm not an adept at it,
but I remember how they looked. Your mamma wore a pale silvery-
blue brocade, softened by dainty real lace and pearls and diamonds.
She looked very beautiful. Your sister looked like a queen, in a white
silk embroidered lavishly with gold. Her hair was arranged in Grecian
style with a fillet of gold studded with rubies. She had so many
admirers it was difficult for any one to get within speaking distance."
"Dear Ethel, she is so beautiful. She looks like papa, with his
splendid eyes and rarely sweet smile! How I wish I had been there
with them! But mamma has promised that I shall come out in
society next winter. I shall be past seventeen then—too young,
mamma and Ethel say, but papa is on my side, and we shall carry
the day!" with a sunny, willful smile.
"You are General Winans' favorite, I know," returned the young man,
smiling, and he said to himself that he applauded her father's taste.
His betrothed was very beautiful and queenly, but her sister was the
realization of a man's ideal of everything lovely and lovable.
"I wonder if they thought of me moping here in the country!"
continued Precious softly.
"Yes, I am sure they did, for I heard your father saying to his wife
that he had been thinking of you all the afternoon, and that he really
must get away Saturday and spend Sunday with you at Rosemont."
"Oh, I shall be so glad. I shall beg him to let me go home with him,"
she cried beamingly. "Didn't they send me any message by you, Lord
Chester?"
"They didn't know I was coming. It was after I had left them that
evening I received the telegram from Earle to join him here for a day
or two. I didn't have time to leave a note for Ethel; had to hustle to
catch my train, you know. I can send her a line to-day."
Earle sauntered back to them, saying:
"I am going to the house now. Have some letters to write. Do you
care to come now?"
"Do you need me?"
"Not for two hours yet."
"Then I will stay here with your sister awhile longer, if she will let
me. I am lazy to-day, and this dolce far niente suits my mood
exactly."
"Stay, then, for you certainly look the perfection of indolence.
Precious, you can bring him back when you get ready."
He turned away and then Norah called:
"I must go back, too."
"I am coming presently," Precious answered coaxingly, as she pulled
Kay's ears.
Lord Chester picked up her book from the grass.
"You were reading. Perhaps I disturb you?" interrogatively.
"You may read to me, if you will. I should like it very much," she
answered, leaning her golden head back against the tree, her eyes
half closed and dreamy, a pensive smile on her rosebud lips.
Seen thus she looked adorable. He gazed at her earnestly and felt as
if he would give the world to kiss those exquisite crimson lips.
Then he pulled himself together with a pang. He was betrothed to
Ethel. What right had he to feel his heart throb faster at the sight of
her sister's beauty? Those luscious pouting lips were not for him.
The little blue book opened at random in his hand. His eyes fell on a
suggestive line:

"Devils laugh when mortals kiss."

The young man started and trembled. Then he read on:

"Alas, and who shall count the cost

Of human souls for love's sake lost?
For peasant's hut and kingly crown,
And rural dell and stately town,
And vineyards ripening in the sun,
And kingdoms by the strong arm won,
And armies marshaled for the fray,
Have been overthrown and swept away,
Betrayed and wrecked and lost for this,
The needless harvest of a kiss!"

He was silent so long that the dreamy, half-shut eyes unclosed and
looked at him in wonder.
"Are you not going to read?" she asked in a tone of disappointment.
"I don't think my voice is in tune to-day. I'm hoarse as a raven. I'll
read you a verse and then you will cry, 'Hold! enough.'"
She laughed, and Lord Chester began:

"A sweeter, sadder thing,

My life for having known you,
Forever with its sacred kin,
My soul's soul, I must own you
 Forever mine, my friend,
From June to life's December—
Not mine to have or hold,
But to pray for and remember."
His voice was discordant with the hoarseness of subtle pain. He let
the little book fall on the grass.
"You see?" he said.
"Yes you do not read well," she answered frankly. "But how can I
amuse you? Shall I read to you, or talk?"
"Neither," he replied with a forced smile. "Let us sit very, very quiet
for awhile and listen to the river. It has a voice, you know, and when
we listen thoughtfully it will repeat over and over some one word,
according to your fancy. Then you shall tell me what it said to you
and I will confess what it said to me."
"What a romantic thought! but I like it," cried Precious, and for some
time both remained silent; listening to the low, monotonous ripple of
the river.
She did not know that he wanted to be silent awhile to fight a battle
with his own heart, to gain strength to bear a cross of pain.
"Well?" he asked her presently in a gentle voice.
She answered pensively:
"It kept whispering, whispering over and over, one sad word:
'Regret! regret! regret!'"
"Mine was similar," said Lord Chester. "Its burden was, 'Too late! too
late! too late!'"
He looked at her, and she lost her pensive air and smiled.
"I felt quite solemn while I was silent," she said. "And it was several
minutes before I could make out the river's words. I am sorry they
gave us plaintive words."
"I was wondering," he answered dreamily, "whether each would
catch the same word."
"Oh, that would have been very amusing," cried Precious.
"Yes," he answered gently, "there was one word—one—that I should
have liked it to echo to both our hearts. I should have taken it for a
prophecy."
"What word?" asked Precious with innocent curiosity.
In spite of herself she returned his look. Dark-gray eyes met the
tender blue ones in one long, lingering, thrilling glance. What did
they say to each other?

"How does Love speak?

In the faint flush upon the tell-tale cheek,
By the uneven heart-throbs, and the freak
Of bounding pulses that stand still and ache,
In the tender
And unnamed light that floods the world with splendor,
In the fire
Glance strikes with glance."

With an effort Precious withdrew her eyes from his, the color flaming
up into her cheeks, her bosom heaving a low soft sigh, while Lord
Chester echoed the sigh and looked away at the distant hills in a
strange silence. Yet he had answered the girl's question without a
word!
And after that it was hard to make conversation.
At last Precious grew frightened at her own silence.
She felt so strangely, her cheeks burned, her heart beat heavily in
the stillness, her lips seemed glued together.
Suddenly he spoke, but without turning his glance from the
mountains:
"Pardon my silence. I must seem very dull to you. I was trying to
hear the river say your word 'Regret.'"
And before she could answer he added:
"Do you know Miss Ingelow's poem 'Regret?'"
She answered in a low voice, with a deepening flush:
"Yes, I found it once in a book of mamma's, heavily underlined. It
begins like this:

"'Oh, that word Regret!

There have been nights and morns when we have
sighed,
Let us alone, Regret.'"

"Ugh! it gives me the dismals!" he groaned, and she paused

diffidently.
That strange, throbbing silence fell again, and frightened her. It was
like some mesmeric spell.
She cried out quickly:
"Let us go up to the house."
Her broad leghorn sun-hat lay on the grass and she stretched out
her arm for it.
A terrible shriek followed.
In the soft green grass beneath the broad brim of the hat a deadly
rattlesnake had lain coiled. At her disturbing touch it reared its evil
head and struck its fangs into her arm.
Lord Chester saw it all, and with a loud cry sprang forward, setting
his heel on the serpent's head ere it could strike the second blow. It
writhed hideously for a moment, then lay still in death.
Precious had fallen back, deathly pale and half unconscious, against
the tree. He fell on his knees beside her and cried out tenderly:
"Do not be frightened, my darling. I will suck the poison from the
wound."
And he placed his lips on the tiny wound on her slender wrist and
with desperate fervor drew forth the fatal venom, spitting it again
and again on the ground.
When he felt that the danger was removed, he looked up at her and
saw that her eyes wore closed in apparent unconsiousness. With
uncontrollable love he clasped her in his arms and kissed the cold
white lips, sobbing:
"My love! my darling!"
 CHAPTER XVII.
"HAD I BUT MET YOU FIRST."

"But cruel fate that shapes our ends,

Dark doom that poet love attends,
The fate unhappy Petrarch sung
In fair Italia's burning tongue;
Such fate as reckless tears apart
The tendrils of the breaking heart,
From every prop where it would twine,
That cruel fate, alas, is mine,
For love of you!"

—Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller.

Lovers and poets rave of voices so dear and sweet that they can call
one back almost from the borders of the grave.
Perhaps there is some little truth in those romantic ravings.
Precious Winans had been lying back as mute and still as some
marble image of a dead maiden, but those frenzied caresses, those
sobbing whispers, "My love! my darling!" sent the warm blood
bounding sweetly through her veins once more and her eyes opened
with a dazed expression.
She saw Lord Chester's face bent close to hers with actual tears in
the splendid eyes, and her lips seemed to burn with his kisses.
Wildly she struggled out of his arms.
"How dare you kiss me?" she half moaned, trying to be angry.
"Forgive me, Precious, I thought you were dead and it almost drove
me mad. Do you not remember the dreadful rattler? I sucked the
poison from the wound, but I must take you home at once and send
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