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Just at nightfall he startled Bell by asking that Dr Grant be sent for

"Please leave me alone with hi to Morris, as the door closed upon his father and his sister, he said, abruptly: "Pray for me, if you can pray for one who yesterday hated you so for saying he must die"

Earnestly, fervently, Morris prayed, as for a dear brother, and when he finished Wilford's faint "aht yet," the pale lips whispered, as Morris sat down beside hiht with God, I mean I've sometimes said there was no God, but I did not believe it, and now I know there is He has beenoutme to send for you at last Do you think there is hope for h your sins be as scarlet they shall be white as snow," Morris replied; and then, oh, how earnestly he tried to point that erring man to the La hi hiood work begun, nor suffer this soul to be lost which had turned to Him even at the eleventh hour

Wilford knew his days were numbered, and he talked freely of it to his father and sister the nextwhen they ca to die, only that he one, all that had ever been amiss in him as a son and brother

"I was too proud, too selfish, to ht it all over yesterday, and the past caain so vividly, especially the part connected with Katy Oh, Katy, I did abuse her!" and a bitter sob attested the genuineness of Wilford's grief for his treatht because I took her from a loalk of life than ratitude to do just what I said, and I setand impulse which savored of her early home I despised her family, I treated them with conte her I am sorry But you'll tell her, father, and you, too, Bell, how, dying, I tried to pray, but could not for thought of lad that I am dead I know her better than to think that; and I believe she loves one, and the duties of the world have closed up the gap I shall leave, I see a brighter future for her than her past has been; and you "