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It was but half-past four the nextto the birds and watching the growing light through the littlein the garret roof, rose and began to dress herself very quietly, lest she should disturb Lisbeth But already soone downstairs, preceded by Gyp The dog's pattering step was a sure sign that it was Adam ent down; but Dinah was not aware of this, and she thought it was more likely to be Seth, for he had told her how Adaht before Seth, however, had only just awakened at the sound of the opening door The exciting influence of the previous day, heightened at last by Dinah's unexpected presence, had not been counteracted by any bodily weariness, for he had not done his ordinary amount of hard work; and so when he went to bed; it was not till he had tired hi wakefulness that drowsiness ca sleep than was usual with hi rest, and with his habitual iin the new day and subdue sadness by his strong will and strong arht warain when he had had his breakfast

"There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a s doesn't change, though it seee The square o' four is sixteen, and you ht, is as true when ais, it gives you a grip hold o' things outside your own lot"

As he dashed the cold water over his head and face, he felt coain, and with his black eyes as keen as ever and his thick black hair all glistening with the fresh moisture, he went into the workshop to look out the wood for his father's coffin, intending that he and Seth should carry it with thee's and have the coffin ht not see and hear the sad task going forward at hoone into the workshop when his quick ear detected a light rapid foot on the stairs--certainly not his mother's He had been in bed and asleep when Dinah had co, and noondered whose step this could be A foolish thought caely As if it could be Hetty! She was the last person likely to be in the house And yet he felt reluctant to go and look and have the clear proof that it was so on a plank he had taken hold of, listening to sounds which his iination interpreted for hi face becaht footstepbrush, hardly htest breeze that chases the autuination saw a di backward at this brush, and a rounded figure just leaning a little to clasp the handle A very foolish thought--it could not be Hetty; but the only way of diso and see WHO it was, for his fancy only got nearer and nearer to belief while he stood there listening He loosed the plank and went to the kitchen door