But when she thought of Willie, and how the stain upon his birth was washed away, the hard look left her eyes, and her hot tears dropped upon the ankle she was bandaging.
"You are glad ?" he asked, looking at her curiously, for her manner puzzled him.
"Yes, very glad for Willie," she replied, keeping her face bent down so he could not see its expression.
Then when her task was done, she seemed to nerve herself for some powerful task, and sitting down upon the hay, out of reach of his arms, she said: "Tell me now all that has happened since I left Terrace Hill; but first of Willie.

You say Anna has him ?" "Yes, Anna--Mrs.Millbrook," he replied, and was about to say more, when Adah interrupted him with: "It may spare you some pain if I tell you first what I know of the tragedy at Spring Bank.

I know that 'Lina is dead, and that the fact of my existence prevented the marriage.

So much I heard Mr.Stanley tell his sister.

I had just come to her then.