52 ARRIVAL AT THE HALL.

together kind, Bertha thought; because she not
only looked a little surprised when told Mr.
Bevan was for the time being Bertha's guardian,
but she never asked him to sit down; and it was
only when he turned tJgo away that she rung
for the butler to give him some refreshment be-
fore he started on his homeward journey. Bertha
had a very kind heart, and she had received so
much kindness from the worthy man, that she
could have cried when he went away, and half
wished she could go back with him. After he
was gone Julia insisted upon her going at once to
see the new summer-house the gardener had just
finished.
 I think, my dear," her grandmamma had
said, "your little friend has more need to rest
herself after her journey."
 But Julia said, Oh, you can't be tired, Bertha!
do come now, and then you can rest after."
 "I'm sure all her bones must be shaken to
pieces," said Tom Layton, Julia's eldest brother,
who had been sent home from India some years
before his sister, and was, therefore, quite a
stranger to Bertha. "That old tumble-down con-
cern of a gig was enough to frighten the French."
 Bertha expected Mrs. Layton would reprove