You believe all this, Madge ?' "'Yes.' "'Then you must know why I am happy, and why I may be better off than you are.

It will be very hard for father and mother--there will be more pain for them here in consequence--but soon it will all end forever; in a little while we shall be together again.

So you know nearly all about poor little me,' she said, with another of her smiles, which were the sweetest, yet most unearthly things I ever saw.
'And now tell me about yourself.

I'm not able to talk much more for the present.

I'd like to know something about the friend who helped me through the last few steps of my journey.