'You shall see no distressing change in me,' she said, 'when we meet to-morrow.' All she asked was to be left in her room for the rest of the day.

I feel sure of her resolution to control herself; and yet I should like to encourage her if I can.

Her chief sorrow (as it seems to me) must be--not for the mother who has so shamefully neglected her--but for the poor little brother, a castaway lost in a strange land.

Can we do nothing to relieve her anxiety ?" "I can write," Randal said, "to a man whom I know in New York; a lawyer in large practice." "The very person we want! Write--pray write by today's post." The letter was dispatched.

It was decided--and wisely decided, as the result proved--to say nothing to Sydney until the answer was received.
Randal's correspondent wrote back with as little delay as possible.