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It's him!"

Orlick, without a doubt! She had lost his nanify

him by his hammer We told him anted him to come into the

kitchen, and he slowly laid down his hammer, wiped his broith his

ar

out, with a curious loose vagabond bend in the knees that strongly

distinguished him

I confess that I expected to see my sister denounce him, and that I

was disappointed by the different result She ood terth produced, andto drink She watched his countenance as if she were

particularly wishful to be assured that he took kindly to his reception,

she showed every possible desire to conciliate him, and there was an air

of humble propitiation in all she did, such as I have seen pervade the

bearing of a child towards a hard master After that day, a day rarely

passed without her drawing the ha in and standing doggedly before her, as if he knew no more

than I did what to make of it