POOR 'LINA Drearily the morning dawned, but there were no bridal slumbers to be broken, no bridal farewells said.

There were indeed good-byes to be spoken, for Anna was impatient to be gone.

But for Adah, who must be found, and Willie, who must be cared for, and Charlie, who was waiting for her, she would have tarried longer, and helped to nurse the girl whom she pitied so much.

But even Alice said she had better go, and so at an early hour she was ready to leave the house she had entered under so unpleasant circumstances.
"I would like to see 'Lina," she said to Alice, who carried the request to the sick room.
But 'Lina refused.

"I can't," she said; "she hates, she despises me, and she has reason.