And I told him I'd promised, and would keep my promise, and trust to God's providence for the rest.

The clergyman was a very kind gentleman, and got up a subscription for the poor babe; and Peggy Burke, when she had her benefit before the circus left Bangbury, give half of what she got as her subscription.

I never heard nothing about the child's friends from that time to this; and I know no more who its father is now than I did then.

And glad I am that he's never come forward--though, perhaps, I oughtn't to say so.

I keep the hair bracelet and the handkerchief as careful as the clergyman told me, for the mother's sake as well as the child's.