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162 Save this money that is due to you; go to Mr. Hammond's with the determination to stick to your work; write to your father and mother; strengthen your resolution every way in you power. Look at my father who began the world with nothing and who has earned for himself comfort and abundance, and sees his children ready to work for him when he gets past hard work. This is the country for the honest industrious man, and you cannot fail to get on if you are only steady and resolved. For you are so honest and straightforward; my father says no one he ever paid wages to had his interest so much at heart. Oh! George, though I have been so mistaken in your thoughts of me, let me not be mistaken in this, that you deserve my good thoughts of you."

Jessie Lindsay was no pretty, but she was very comely, and as she now stood leaning with her back to the milking shed facing George, he for the first time saw into her soul and was touched by its strength and its weakness. She looked so earnest, so self-forgetful; she had not thought of herself, but she took the only opportunity that was given to her to arouse his better feelings and to restore him to self-respect.

This was the wife for him of all the world if he only knew it, and he began to have a