Then drawing forward the blushing, trembling Zoe.

"My little wife, mother dear you will love her now for my sake, and soon for her own.

She is all ours--alone in the world but for us." Before the last words had left his lips Zoe felt herself folded in a tender embrace, while the sweetest of voices said, "Dear child! you are alone no longer.

I will be a true mother to you--my Edward's wife--and you shall be one of my dear daughters." A gentle, loving kiss accompanied the words, and all Zoe's fears were put to flight; glad tears rained down her cheeks as she clung about the neck of her new-found mother.
"Oh, I love you already," she sobbed.
Mrs.Dinsmore next embraced the little bride with a kind, "Welcome to Ion, my dear." Then Mr.Dinsmore took her in his arms, saying, with a kiss and a look of keen but kindly scrutiny into the blushing face, "Edward has given us a surprise, but a very pretty and pleasant-looking one.

I am your grandpa, my dear." "Oh, I am glad! I never had a grandpa before.