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 to work my passage," said the girl, resolutely; "and, if he still live, I am sure I shall find him."

"An' hoo will ye ken where to seek him, silly bairn?"

"I will go first to the rectory—I know how to find my way there. I will tell my story, and those who knew my mother will help her child to find her father."

"An' ye will leave me, Alice?" said the trembling voice of the old woman.

"I will go to my father," replied the resolute tones of the younger one.

"Alice! Alice! an' is this a' the return ye make me for the care that ha' bred ye, an' fed ye, an' luved ye wi' a mither's luve, for mair than eighteen years."

"Grandmother," said Alice, sternly, "I remember only that for more than eighteen years you have deprived my poor widowed father of his daughter's love, and me of a father's love and care."

"An' ye will leave me, an' go to seek the fause-hearted mon that wronged yer puir mither? Oh, Allie! Allie! I did na' luke for this fra' ye."