An Orphan Court! Again he said the words to himself, and then aloud.

No doubt the law did its best for the fatherless and motherless, for such waifs and strays as that which lay beside him.

When it bound out children, it was most emphatic that they should be fed and clothed and taught; not starved or beaten unduly, or let to grow up ignorant as negroes.

Sometimes the law was obeyed, sometimes not.
The roses in the east bloomed again, and the pink of their petals melted into the clear blue of the upper skies.

Because their beauty compelled him Haward looked at the heavens.