A shadow of disappointment came over her feelings, and a strange heaviness weighed over her heart.
"Oh, I'm so sorry," she said to herself.

"I wanted to see him again." She pressed through the crowd of children, and made her way down among them to the landing below and out upon the street, looking this way and that, but could not see the child.

Then she returned to the upper rooms, but her search was in vain.

Remembering that Mrs.Paulding had called him by name, she sought for the missionary's wife and made inquiry about him.
"Do you mean the little fellow I called Andy ?" said Mrs.Paulding.
"Yes, that's the one," returned Edith.
"A beautiful boy, isn't he ?" "Indeed he is.

I never saw such eyes in a child.