I shall leave the door open between your room and mine, so that you need not feel timid, and can run right in to me whenever you wish.

Good-night, dear." "Good-night, Mamma Vi.

Thank you for being so good to me, and to Gracie and Max," Lulu said, clinging to her in an affectionate way.
"My child," returned Violet, "how could I be anything else to the children of my dear husband?
Ah, I must go! Mamma calls me," she added, hurrying away as a soft, sweet voice was heard coming from the adjoining room.
Lulu finished undressing, said her prayers, and had just laid her head on her pillow, when some one glided noiselessly to the bedside and a soft hand passed caressingly over her hair.
The child opened her eyes, which had already closed in sleep, and saw by the moonlight a sweet and beautiful face bending lovingly over her.
"Grandma Elsie," she murmured sleepily.
"Yes, dear.

Rosie and Walter never like to go to sleep without a good-night kiss from mamma, and you must have the same now, as you are to be one of my dear children." Lulu, now wide awake, started up to put both arms round the neck of her visitor.

"Oh, I do love you!" she said, "and I'll try hard to be a good child to you." "I believe it, dear," Elsie said, pressing the child to her heart.