CHAPTER V.
SOME OF THE TROUBLES OF A NEEDLEWOMAN .-- A FRIEND IN NEED.
THE prompt assistance rendered, by Dr.R--to Mrs.Gaston came just in time.

It enabled her to pay her month's rent, due for several days, to settle the amount owed to Mrs.Grubb, and lay in more wood for the coming winter.

This consumed all her money, and left her once more dependent upon the meagre reward of her hard labor to supply food and clothing for herself and her two remaining children.
From a state of almost complete paralysis of mind, consequent upon the death of Ella, her necessities aroused her.

On the second day after the child had been taken, she again resumed her suspended toil.

The sight of the unfinished garment which had been laid aside after bending over it nearly the whole night previous to the morning upon which Ella died, awakened a fresh emotion of grief in her bosom.