If you will go with this man I will be father to her and mother to her.

Of what bread I eat, she shall eat; of what cup I drink, she shall drink.

See, Mary, here is the Bible;" and he covered the book with his hand.

"Leave her to me, and by this word she shall be my child." The mother consented at last; left her baby with the doctor, married, and went to America.

All this was consummated before Roger Scatcherd was liberated from jail.