Oh, how shall I win her back to trust me as a father again ?" "Mercy!" he said.

Mercy did not answer nor look up.
"Mercy!" he repeated in a firmer tone.

"Mercy, my child, look up at me!" Docile from her long habit and from her great love, Mercy looked up, with the tears streaming.

As soon as she saw Parson Dorrance's face, she burst again into more violent crying, and sobbed out incoherently,-- "Oh! I never knew it.

It wouldn't be right." "Hush, dear! Hush!" said the Parson, in a voice of tender authority.