I dinna want him back noo, an' ilka day is takkin' me nearer to him, but for mony a lang year I grudged him sair, sair.

He was juist five minutes gone, an' they brocht him back deid, my Joey." On the Sabbath day Jess could not go to church, and it was then, I think, that she was with Joey most.

There was often a blessed serenity on her face when we returned, that only comes to those who have risen from their knees with their prayers answered.

Then she was very close to the boy who died.

Long ago she could not look out from her window upon the brae, but now it was her seat in church.