Sometimes he would stop and wait a moment or two, until the intolerable pain subsided, and then he would walk on again with all the fortitude and power of endurance he could command.

In this extreme suffering, the uppermost thought in his mind, when on the street, kept his eyes wandering about, and scanning every female form that came in sight, in the ever-living hope of seeing his mother.

But the sigh of disappointment told too frequently, that he looked in vain.

He had not proceeded far, when the pains in his feet became so acute that he paused, and leaned against a tree-box, unable for a time to move forward a single step.
While resting thus, Doctor R--, who had been called to visit a patient in Lexington, came past and noticed him.

There was something about the child, although so changed that he did not recognize him, that aroused the doctor's sympathies, and he ordered his man to drive up to the pavement and stop.
"Well, my little man, what's the matter ?" said he, leaning out of his carriage window.
Henry looked up into his face, but did not reply.