Agnes gazed tenderly into his face, and asked-- "Why this look of doubt and anxiety ?" "Need I answer the question ?" returned the young man.

"It is, thus far, no better with me than when we left our old home.

Though health is coming back through every fibre, and my heart is filled with an eager desire to relieve these kind friends of the burden of our support, yet no prospect opens." No cloud came stealing darkly over the face of the young wife.

The sunshine, so far from being dimmed, was brighter.
"Let not your heart be troubled," said she, with a beautiful smile.
"All will come out right." "Right, Agnes?
It is not right for me thus to depend on strangers." "You need depend but a little while longer.

I have already made warm friends here, and, through them, secured for you employment.