_SO_ the morning found them fast asleep.

The man awoke first and felt the child against his bosom, soft and warm.

It was some moments ere he understood what it meant.

It seemed as if the wretched life he had been leading was all a horrible dream out of which he had awakened, and that the child sleeping in his bosom was his own tenderly-loved baby.

But the sweet illusions faded away, and the hard, sorrowful truth stood out sternly before him.
Then Andy's eyes opened and looked into his face.