Yours truely, J.LATHAM.
The minister's wife began reading the letter, wondering not a little at Ranald's manner, but when she came to the words, "Mack Cameron got drownded," she laid the letter down with a little cry.

Her husband came quickly to her, took up the letter, and read it to the end.
"I will go at once," he said, and rang the bell.

"Tell Lambert to put Black in the buggy immediately, Jessie," he said, when the maid appeared.

"Do you think you ought to go, my dear ?" "Yes, yes, I shall be ready in a moment; but, oh, what can we do or say ?" "Perhaps you had better not go.

It will be very trying," said the minister.
"Oh, yes, I must go.