dad was anxious to know how the watch would fit the case, and, telling Beulah, "Our folks will be anxious to hear from us by this time," he bade her an affectionate farewell, charging her to keep a bright look-out for Zephina.

CHAPTER XIV.

SHOPPING.

MRS. WHATELY took Beulah out to make some needful purchases. No sooner did they enter a shop than the clerks were all politeness and attention. It was not altogether because that lady came in her own carriage, but because there was in her mode of shopping something so agreeable that every one was pleased to wait upon her. She knew before she left home just what she wanted, and about what would be a reasonable price, and therefore never stood cheapening for hours the articles she intended to purchase.

She consulted Beulah's taste, for, like most girls, she had a taste of her own, and found that she invariably preferred the least glaring colors and the most simple style. As this entirely agreed with her own taste, it was not difficult to make a

selection. After their return home, Mrs. Whately handed Beulah a little memorandum-book, saying, "It will be well for you to keep an account of your expenditures while absent from home. I have arranged it for you. You will find, among other things, a place to put down the pieces that you give to the chamber-maid for the washerwoman. Although I believe all my domestics to be honest, it is right that you should know certainly that every piece is returned. Habits of order and economy are important to every woman, rich or poor. In our country, especially, she who is rich to-day may be poor to-morrow; and, besides, wealth should be expended conscientiously and with good taste."

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But," said Beulah, "I think those young ladies we met shopping to-day could not be very economical, for they wanted to purchase the greatest quantities of things, lace, shawls, silks, velvets, every thing. The counters were heaped up with the various articles. And yet," said she,

they did try to be economical, for they asked again and again if that was the lowest price they could possibly take."

"They were probably only shopping for amusement. Many of them went home without purchasing a single article," said Mrs. Whately.

"How provoking it must be to the merchants," said Beulah. "I can't imagine what pleasure the young ladies take in such a strange amusement."

"I hope you never will know from experience," was the reply.

Beulah wrote in her little memorandum-book, with the greatest possible neatness, as follows:

Received from my father, Oct. 15th, $100.00. Expended:

"Forty-five dollars already!" exclaimed Beulah to herself, when she had added up her expenses; "I am afraid, at this rate, my hundred will not last through the year."

CHAPTER XV.

A SURPRISE.

AFTER Beulah had been in Boston about a month, she went one morning with Mrs. Whately to a milliner's in Street.

While Mrs. Whately was engaged making some purchases for herself, Beulah's attention was arrested by a familiar voice that she heard on the other side of the shop. She turned and looked. It was the voice of one of the young girls of the shop, waiting upon a customer. She looked again, and, approaching the girl, exclaimed, "Zephina!" "Beulah Morris!" was the reply, and a warm embrace followed.

Mrs. Whately came towards them looking inquiringly. "It is Zephina, my own dear friend," said Beulah. "Mrs. Whately, Zephina."

"Is it possible?" exclaimed Mrs. Whately,