'If you will, you might lend me a shilling, as I have no money.

I shall not forget it.' He said, as he took the coin: 'I shall return the amount, though I never can the kindness.

I shall keep the coin.' He took the shilling, sir--he wouldn't take any more--and then he said good-bye.

At the door he turned and walked back to me, and put his arms round me like a real boy does, and gave me a hug, and says he: "'Thank you a thousand times, Mrs.Martindale, for your goodness to me, for your sympathy, and for the way you have spoken of my father and mother.

You have seen me cry, Mrs.Martindale,' he said; 'I don't often cry: the last time was when I came back to the lonely house after my poor dear was laid to rest.