Mrs.Mullins was up all last night.

I offered to come to-night." "You went with her to the prison to-day, I believe ?" "Yes." "Did you see Hurd ?" "For a very few minutes." "Did you hear anything of his state of mind ?" he asked anxiously.

"Is he penitent ?" "He talked to me of Willie," she said--a fierce humanness in her unfriendly eyes.

"I promised him that when the child died, he should be buried respectably--not by the parish.

And I told him I would always look after the little girls." The rector sighed.