I'll fetch you some paper this minut." She brought him writing materials, and stood by him with this apology, "If 'twas to your sweetheart I'd be off.

But 'tis to your mother." (With a side glance), "She have been a handsome woman in her day, I'll go bail." "She is as beautiful as ever in my eyes," said Henry, tenderly.

"And, oh, heaven! give me the sense to write to her without frightening her." "Then I won't hinder you no more with my chat," said his hostess, with kindly good humor, and slipped away upstairs.

She lighted a great wood fire in the bedroom, and laid the bed and the blankets all round it, and opened the window, and took the homespun linen sheets out of a press, and made the room very tidy.

Then she went down again, and the moment Henry saw her, he said "I feel your kindness, miss, but I don't know your name, nor where in the world I am." His hostess smiled.