Let him live in doubt who can.

Let me believe that the tender mother-heart and the loving sister-heart in that little cabin _did_ reach up to the great Heart that is over us all in Fatherly love, did find a real comfort for themselves, and did bring a strength-giving and sanctifying something upon the head of the young man, who straightway rose up refreshed, and departed out into the night, leaving behind him mother and sister straining their eyes after him in the blackness, and carrying with him thoughts and memories, and--who shall doubt ?--a genuine heavenly inspiration that saved him in the trials in which we shall next meet him.
At two o'clock that night August Wehle stood upon the shore of the Ohio in company with Andrew Anderson, the Backwoods Philosopher.

Andrew waved a fire-brand at the steamboat "Isaac Shelby," which was coming round the bend.

And the captain tapped his bell three times and stopped his engines.

Then the yawl took the two men aboard, and two days afterward Andrew came back alone..