Knowing Grace as they did, her friends guessed that she had something of real importance to impart.

When she came to the part about Ruth's father going west after promising to send for his little family, a light began to dawn upon them, and Jessica exclaimed: "Why, they must have been killed while on their way to join him!" "It is so.

Mamselle speak the truth!" almost shouted Jean.

"It was then they die.

He have tol' me so many times." "Then the man who saved Jean must have been Ruth's father!" exclaimed Miriam, "and a dreadful mistake was made in telling him his child was dead, too.