You have given my name to Walter Hamilton's child, and if you had hated me you would never have done it." "Hated you!" repeated Margaret; "we do not hate you; now that we understand you, we like you very much, and one of Kate's last injunctions to Walter was that he should again offer you a home with him." Once more Lenora was weeping.

She had not shed a tear when they carried from sight her mother, but words of kindness touched her heart, and the fountain was opened.

At last, drying her eyes, she said, "I prefer to go with father.

Walter will, of course, come back to the homestead, while father and I shall return to our old home in Connecticut, where, by being kind to him, I hope to atone, in a measure, for my great unkindness to mother.".