Covering her face with her hands, she sobbed, "Oh, Allie, Allie! I wish she hadn't died." Judith looked on in amazement, and for want of something better to do, placed a fresh stick of wood in the stove, muttering to herself.

"Now I never! I might of knew I didn't know what to say.

What a pity Harry died.

I'll give her that big ginger snap the minute it's baked.

See if I don't." Accordingly, when the snap was done, Judith placed it in Mary's hands, bidding her eat it quick, and then go up and see the nice chamber Mrs.
Mason had arranged for her.
"If you please," said Mary, rapidly shifting the hot cake from one hand to the other,--"if you please, I had rather go up now, and eat the cake when it is cool." "Come, then," said Judith; and leading the way, she conducted Mary up the staircase, and through a light, airy hall to the door of a small room, which she opened, saying "Look, ain't it pretty ?" But Mary's heart was too full to speak, and for several minutes she stood silent.