Is not that good news?
And it is true; they all say it is true." The mother mourned, saying: "Poor child, how will she bear it when she knows?
I shall never see her again in life.

It is hard, so hard.

She does not suspect?
You guard her from that ?" "She thinks you will soon be well." "How good you are, and careful, dear Aunt Hester! None goes near herr who could carry the infection ?" "It would be a crime." "But you SEE her ?" "With a distance between--yes." "That is so good.

Others one could not trust; but you two guardian angels--steel is not so true as you.

Others would be unfaithful; and many would deceive, and lie." Hester's eyes fell, and her poor old lips trembled.
"Let me kiss you for her, Aunt Hester; and when I am gone, and the danger is past, place the kiss upon her dear lips some day, and say her mother sent it, and all her mother's broken heart is in it." Within the hour, Hester, raining tears upon the dead face, performed her pathetic mission..