A queer, mischievous little chuckle flitted over her face--a second, and itwas gone.

"Good-bye, sir--Philip," she exclaimed, and they parted. Her last words keptringing inside his ears as he made his way homeward. "Good-bye, sir--Philip"--the kid's arrangement of words was odd and amusing, and at the sametime suggested something more. "Good-bye, Sir Philip," had a differentmeaning, though the words were the same.