When he entered it, Henry and his mother were seated near a small table on which supper was spread for their expected guest.
"Tom Armstrong will recover," said the missionary, seating himself opposite the widow, and speaking in a hurried, excited tone.

"His wound is a bad one, given by a war-club, but I think it is not dangerous.

I wish I could say as much for poor Simon.

If he had been attended to sooner he might have lived; but so much blood has been already lost that there is now no hope.

Alas for his little boy! He will be an orphan soon.