The Merricks as a family were very much like a great many other people in the world--not remarkable in any way. The five younger children were every-day girls and boys, but the eldest girl was gifted. Mr. Merrick was too busied with making money for his flock--in which he was wonderfully successful--to realize what it meant to be the father of a genius; but Mrs. Merrick felt with pride that Marcella was not like other girls, and her sisters and brothers realized it too, but with more annoyance than pleasure.…
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