In the school, the children could not keep quiet, so great was their interest in the event.

Even Mr.Bickel was moved to make an unheard-of effort He took his big stick in his hand, saying:-- "Wife, we ought to go and call on Mrs.Stanhope, and apprise her of our relationship with that girl Elsli.

If she needs any advice about the child, I am the proper person to give it.

Perhaps we shall be asked to make our cousin a visit, when she is settled there by the Rhine; there are great factories of all kinds there, and perhaps Mrs.Stanhope may have some connection with them, and that may help us in our business." But Mr.Bickel had to lay aside his stick again, for his wife was not ready to go to make so important a visit at so short notice.
If there was excitement elsewhere, at the doctor's house there was a real jubilee.

The mother and the aunt were filled with thankfulness that the delicate girl had fallen into such good hands, where she would be loved and cared for, and where her natural refinement would have every chance of development.