What a mercy of God's he'll never see her again--she with the saved and he--what a reckoning for him when he goes!" "But he was not bad to let you take them." "He boasted to me that he'd not have done it, except that she begged him with her last breath to promise it.

He said the words with great maudlin tears raining down his face, when my own eyes were dry!" "How good if you can leave them both in the church, preaching the word where you preached it so many years!" "I misdoubt the father's blood in them--at least, in the older.

But it's late.

Good night, Clytie--a good Christmas to you." "More to you, Mr.Delcher! Good night!".