OLD FRIENDS AGAIN. 383

ean tell; but girls don’t know much,” thought Rick; “she wears a
pretty hat, though.”

Rick shouted, “Can you tell me where—”

The Chinaman turned and faced Rick.

“ Why, why Joe Pigtail, that you?” exclaimed Rick, bounding furi-
ously into the garden. The wearer of the pretty hat turned also
toward Rick, and at the sight of her sweet face Rick’s heart seemed
to bound more violently than his legs even.

It was Amy Clarendon! The old acquaintances advanced toward Rick.

“Me gladdee see you,” said Joe, bowing.

“And J am very glad to see you,” was the encouraging welcome
from the young fairy. (

“Tsn’t this nice? Do you live here?” inquired Rick.

“Yes, this is my father’s, and Chung Kang is our gardener,” said
Amy.

Here Joe Pigtail bowed.

“All the folks are away,” said Amy, “and you must stop to din-
ner, Rick. 9.

What a dinner that was! Rick was thinking he had reached
fairy-land, and, finishing a glass of ice-cream, was about to attack
another, when he heard a voice in the entry —a voice generally musi-
eal enough, but now it sounded like a dragon’s:

»“ Hie“is here, then? I have been hunting for him, and some one.
saw him come here. Well, please say that his uncle is at the door,
imd is in a great hurry to. get to the ship.”

‘No help for it,” thought Rick. “TI must go.”

Uncle Nat was glad to see Amy and Chung Kang again, and urged
‘them to visit the ship. The visit was made, and then came Rick’s
second sorrowful parting from the Clarendons’ gardener.

Rick was thinking about the future. “Uncle Nat says the Antelope