Year: 1874

Patty had received, by the hand Of
Brady, letter from her father, ask
inc her to come home. DO not think
that Captain Lumsden wrote peni-
tently and asked Patty's fo,giyness.
Captain Lutnsaen never did anything
otherwise than meanlv. He wrote
/ that he was now bparidden with rheu-
matism, aud il seemed hard that he
should be tors,ken hy his oldest
daughter, who ought to he the stay OF
his declining years. He did not un-
/ derstand how Patty could pretend 10
he so religious and yet leave him Il
suffer withou, the solnfort of her pres
| cnce. The other children we've
Young. and the house was in hopeless
1 confusion. If the Me,hodis had
not quite turned her heart away from
her poor afflicted father, she would
come at once and help him in his
troubles. He was ready to forgive
the past, and as for her religlon,if she
did not trouble him with it, She could
do as she pleased He did not think
much OF religion that set daugh
ter against her father, though.


Patty was too much rejoiced at the
open door that it set before her to
feel the sting very keenly. There
was another pain that she had grown
worse with every day she had spent
with Morton. Beside her own sor-
row, she felt for him. There was "A
strange restlessness in his eyes, an
eager and vacillating activity in wha,
he was doing, that indicated how fear
fully the tempest ragged within. For
Morton's old desperation was upon
him. and Patty was in terror for the
result. About the time of kike's
death the dove settled upon his soul
also. He had mastered himself, and
the restless wildncss had given place
to a look of constraint and suffering
that was less alarming but hardly less
distressing to ttv,who had also the
agony Of hiding her own agony. But
the disappearance Of Pinkcy had
awakened some hope in her. Not ono
jot Of this trembling hopelessness did
she dare impart to Morton. who for
his part had been bn, one consolation


he would throw eway his he N the
battle, as kike had done before him.


So eager was Patty t. leave her
school now and hasten 10 her father.
that she could not endure to stay the
weeks that were nee sSarv to COM
plc,c her term. She had cnvassea
with DR.. Morgan the possibility Of
getting some one to take her pace,
and both had concluded that there
was no one available, Miss Jane Nor
gan being too much out Of health
But to their surprise Nettie offered
her services. She had not been Of
much more use in the world than
humming- bird, she said, and now it
seemed to her that like would be
better pleased that she should make
herself useful.


Thus released, Patty started home
Immediately, and Morton, who could
not reach the distant part of his CIR
cult, upon which his supply was now
preaching, in time to resume his work
at once, concluded to set out for His
sawachee also, that he might see how
his parents Jared. But he concealed
his purpose from Patty who departed
in company with Brady and his wife.
Morton would not trust himself in her
society longer. He therefore rode
round by circuitous way y,and, thanks
to Dolly, reached Hissawachee before
them.


| may not describe the enthusiasm
with which Morton was received at
home. Scarcely had he kissed his
mother and shaken hands with his
father, who was surprised that none
of his dolorous predictions had been
fulfilled, and greeted young Henry,
now shooting up into manhood, when
his mother whispered to him that his
brother. Lewis was alive and had
come home.


"What Lewis alive - exclaimed
Morton, 81 thought he was killed in
Pittsburg ten years ago


"That was false report. He had
been doing badly, and he did not
want to return, and SO he let us be-
lieve him dead. But now he has
come back and he is afraid you will
not receive him kindly. suppose
he thinks because you are a preacher
you will be hard on his evil ways
But you won't be too hard, will you?'


81? God knows ! have been toe
great a sinner myself for that. Where