He thinks as you do of the likeness.

Ah, I hear his step!" and she hastened to open the door for him.
"I thought I should find you here," he said, kissing her on both cheeks, then drawing her near the light and gazing with keen, loving scrutiny into the blushing face.
"Elsie daughter," turning to her--"Ah!" as he perceived her emotion and took note of the miniature in her hand, "is it not a speaking likeness ?" "Yes, papa," she said in a trembling voice, going to him to lay her head on his breast while he clasped her in his arms, "but it has roused such an intense longing in my heart! "'Oh, for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!" "Dearest child!" he said tenderly, "the separation is only for time, and a long eternity of reunion will follow.

'Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.'" "'But for a moment!'" she repeated.

"Yes, it will seem like that when it is past, though now the road looks so long and lonely." "Ah, dearest!" he said, softly smoothing her hair, "remember that nearer, dearer Friend whose promise is, 'I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.'" Presently she lifted her head, wiped away her tears, and as her father released her from his arms, turned to her daughter with a tenderly interested and inquiring look.
"What is it, my darling ?" she asked, glancing at the letter in the young girl's hand.
Violet gave it to her, saying, with downcast eyes and blushing cheeks, "I found it on my dressing-table, mamma.

It is from him--Capt.