Then he repaired to the neighborhood of her school, and waited to see if she was among the scholars at the time of their dismissal.

In a little while the children came pouring forth, and among them his eager eyes soon caught the form of Emily.

He was by her side in a moment, saying, as he took her hand-- "Where have you been?
I've looked for you these two days." A crimson flush overspread the face of Emily in an instant, and she gently disengaged the hand he had taken.
Andrew, who, with all his faults, was proud and sensitive, seemed startled by this unexpected reception.

For a moment or two he stood gazing upon her downcast face, and then turned from her and walked rapidly away.

As he did so, the little girl lifted toward him her gentle eyes, that were now full of tears, and stood gazing after him with a sad expression of countenance until he was out of sight.
"I don't care for anything now!" Such was the ejaculation of Andrew, pausing, and throwing himself, with a reckless air, upon a door-step, so soon as he had passed beyond the view of the friend he had so loved for years, but who now, from some cause unknown to him, had become suddenly estranged.