CHAPTER IV.
KATY MATURES A MAGNIFICENT SCHEME.
"I suppose it is all for the best, mother," said Katy, when she had told her sad story of disappointment.

"I can't get those words out of my head, since you have told me about my father.

I feel just as though everything would come out right, it does go very bad just now." "I am glad you feel so, Katy," added Mrs.Redburn.

"It will make you much better contented with your lot.

I have suffered so much that I cannot help repining a little, though I feel that my destiny and yours is in the hands of the wise Father, who bringeth good out of evil." Katy had not yet reached that spirit of meek submission to the will of Heaven which looks upward in the hour of trial, not doubting that the all-wise God knows best what is for the good of his children.