Horror! she had failed to discover him, and was about departing.

In the agony of the moment he awoke.

There was a hand laid gently upon him, and a voice said--"Father! dear father! come!" It was the voice of his child; the same voice that had penetrated his dreaming ear.
"Oh, Kate!" he exclaimed, eagerly; "is it indeed you ?" "Yes, father," she answered; "and won't you come home with me ?" The wretched man did not answer in words but arose immediately and went out with his daughter.
"Oh, what a dream I had, Kate!" said Mr.Ellis, as he left the door of the tavern; "and you came to me in my dream." His feelings were much excited, and he spoke with emotion.
"Did I, father ?" replied the girl.

"And how did I come?
As a good angel to save you ?" "Waking, you have come to me as such," answered the father after a brief silence, speaking more calmly, and as if to himself.
How wild a thrill shot through the frame of Kate at these words, so full of meaning to her; but she dared not trust herself to make an answer, lest she should do harm rather than good.

And so they walked, in silence, all the way home; Henry, who had accompanied his sister, keeping a short distance behind them, so that his father had no indication of his presence..