FOUR PEOPLE AND THE HALL OF SHELLS. 7% 
“There may be eyes that read these gospels 
Other than the eyes of men.” 
When the child was busy, one day, sorting 
her shells, Miss Bremely told her of Ossian’s 
lordly cave with its “hall of shells where kings 
and warriors feasted,” and Undine had asked 
that, because of her love for the sea and be- 
cause her name was that of a sea maiden, her 
room might be a hall of shells. Her cousin 
consented upon the conditions that Undine 
learn the names and what she could of the 
haunts and habits of her treasures. So Un- 
dine’s room, opening toward the ocean, became 
a little hall of shells, and those who loved her 
brought their treasures into it, until it was 
growing to look like an ocean cave or a mer- 
maid’s dae room, 
It was here that Miss Bpahely and ‘Tom 
came after their walk upon the strand. Miss 
Bremely placed her basket of shells upon a 
table by the bed, while Tom, with more devo- 
tion than discretion, dumped his dripping treas- 
ures upon the coverlet before his sister. 
Miss Bremely’s smothered “O Tom!” 
was unheard as Tom, with hands deep in his 
bulging pockets, exclaimed : 
“Old Pacific must have been thinking 
about you, Undine; our cove was full of 
