He received your letter this morning, and he took the first train to London as soon as he had read it." In another minute my uncle's strong arms were round me.

In my forlorn position, I felt the good vicar's kindness, in traveling all the way to London to see me, very gratefully.

It brought the tears into my eyes--tears, without bitterness, that did me good.
"I have come, my dear child, to take you back to your old home," he said.

"No words can tell how fervently I wish you had never left your aunt and me.

Well! well! we won't talk about it.