The Carnegie family was free from debt.

Oh, the happiness of that day! The debt was, indeed, discharged, but the debt of gratitude remains that never can be paid.

Old Mrs.Henderson lives to-day.

I go to her house as to a shrine, to see her upon my visits to Dunfermline; and whatever happens she can never be forgotten.

[As I read these lines, written some years ago, I moan, "Gone, gone with the others!" Peace to the ashes of a dear, good, noble friend of my mother's.] The incident in my messenger life which at once lifted me to the seventh heaven, occurred one Saturday evening when Colonel Glass was paying the boys their month's wages.