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A word or phrase which is as common and familiar as our hand nificance and present a face so keen and

strange that it is as if we had never ain he said the words to himself, and then aloud No doubt the law did

its best for the fatherless and motherless, for such waifs and strays as

that which lay beside him When it bound out children, it was ht; not starved or

beaten unduly, or let to grow up ignorant as negroes Sometimes the law

was obeyed, soain, and the pink of their petals melted

into the clear blue of the upper skies Because their beauty compelled him

Haward looked at the heavens The Court of the Orphan! When my father

and my ed

with surprise that portions of the Psalter did somehow stick in the

memory

The face of the child was dark and thin, but the eyes were large and there

was proain, and suddenly resolved that he, Marmaduke Haward,

would provide for her future When they met once more, he should tell the