He did not know the friend who had given him a home and food and loving words, and looked at him half scared and doubting.

But his voice made the child spring to his feet with a bound, and flushed his thin-face with the joy of a glad recognition.
Mrs.Paulding received him with a true motherly kindness, and soon a bath and clean clothing wrought as great a change in the child as they had done in the man.
"I want your help in saving him," said Mr.Graham, aside, to the missionary.

"He was once among our most respectable citizens, a good church-member, a good husband and father, a man of ability and large influence.

Society lost much when it lost him.

He is well worth saving, and we must do it if possible.