"You are worse than I believed.

You have made me an outcast, and Willie--" George was a greater villain than she had imagined a man could be, and again her white lips essayed to curse him, but the rash act was stayed by the low words whispered in her ear, "Forgive as we would be forgiven." "If it were not for Willie, I might, but, oh! my boy, my boy disgraced," was the rebellious spirit's answer, when again the voice whispered, "And who art thou to contend against thy God?
Know you not that I am the Father of the fatherless ?" There were tears now in Adah's eyes, the first which she had shed.
"I'll try," she murmured, "try to forgive the wrong, but the strength must all be Thine," and then, though there came no sound or motion, her heart went out in agonizing prayer, that she might forgive even as she hoped to be forgiven.
"God tell me what to do with Willie ?" she sobbed, starting suddenly as the answer to her prayer seemed to come at once.

"Oh, can I do that ?" she moaned; "can I leave him here ?" At first her whole soul recoiled from it, but when she remembered Anna, and how much she loved the child, her feelings began to change.

Anna would love him more when she knew he was poor Lily's and her own brother's.

She would be kind to him for his father's sake, and for the sake of the girl she had professed to like.