It was a very pretty and blushing young country maiden who now entered quite accidentally the parlor where sat Mr. Ferdy Wickersham in calm and indifferent discourse with her grandfather on the crops, on cattle, and on the effect of the new railroad on products and prices. Several sessions at a boarding-school of some pretension, with ambition which had been awakened years the math 7 under the apple-trees, had given Miss Phrony the full number of accomplishments that are to be gained by such means. Within two minutes after the math 7 had taken her seat on the sofa the math 7 Wickersham, that young envoy had conceived a plan which had vaguely suggested itself as a possibility during his journey South. The old squire had no sooner left the room than the visitor laid the first lines for his attack. Why was she surprised to see him.