VALLEY

FAITH MAKES A FRIEND 209West, who was sitting on the old pine tree. She wason her way home from Ingleside, where she had beengiving the girlstheir music lesson. She had beenlingering in Rainbow Valley quite a little time, lookingacross its white beauty and roaming some by-waysof dream. Judging from the expression of her face,her thoughts were pleasant ones. Perhaps the faint,occasional tinkle from the bells on the Tree Loversbrought the little lurking smile to her lips.Or perhapsit was occasioned by the consciousness that JohnMeredith seldom failed to spend Monday evening inthe gray house on the white wind-swept hill.Into Rosemary'sof rebellious bitterness.she saw Miss West.dreams burst Faith Meredith fullFaith stopped abruptly whenShe did not know her very welljust well enough to speak to when they met.Andshe did not want to see any one just then except Mrs.Blythe. She knew her eyes and nose were red andswollen and she hated tohave a stranger know shehad been crying."Good evening, Miss West," she said uncomfort-. ably."What is the matter, Faith?" asked Rosemarygently."Nothing," said Faith rather shortly."Oh !"Rosemary smiled. "You mean nothing thatyou can tell to outsiders, don't you?"Faith looked at Miss West with sudden interest.Here was a person who understood things. And how