Harry takes no trouble and Medway, the new preacher, says, Henry Hatton lifts up your heart, if he only smiles at you." "So he does, mother--God bless him!" "Well, John, I can't stop and talk with thee all day, it isn't likely; but thou art such a one to tempt talk.

I must be off to do something.
Good-bye, dear lad, and if thy trouble gets hard on thee and thou wants a word of human love, thy mother always has it ready and waiting for you--so she has!" John watched his mother out of sight; then he locked his desk and went about her commission.

She had trusted him to find beds for thirty-four children, and it never entered his mind that any desire of hers could possibly be neglected.

Fortunately, circumstances had gone before him and prepared for his necessity.

The mattresses were easily found and carried to the prepared room, and the children had been nourished on warm milk and bread, had been rolled in blankets and had gone to sleep ere John arrived at his own home.