Volume II Part 58 (1/2)
”Where can I look through them?” he asked, uneasily
”Oh, come into the kitchen”
Anselht of a tallow candle he unfolded the yellow and withered papers
One of the papers contained a passport for the work-hter Jane, made out by the corew pale and nearly fell to the floor in a faint
”The reading see
”Zilda has travelled a great deal, and maybe you have met her before”
”I hardly think so,” stao, Ansel girl's shoulder, he said:
”My dear child, your mother is o to bed and take a rest I shall stay with the invalid The housekeeper here has kindly consented to give you a room”
”Not for any price,” cried the little one in terror ”I cannot stay in this house overnight”
Little by little he ed to calm the poor child and ly consented to stay overnight in the house, and the housekeeper conducted her to a little rooazed at the unclean walls, and only her love for her mother induced her to stay and not return even now
”Good-night,
The wonition of her daughter
”Do not wake your mother up,” said Anselmo, hastily ”Sleep is necessary to her and I will call you if she asks for you”
”Then you really intend to stay here?”
”Yes”
”Do you know us?”
”No,” stao to bed now, it is late”
”You will surely call o now and rely on me”
She went, and Ansel woly said to himself
From time to time the sick woman would wake up in her sleep and utter a low moan
Anselmo looked in terror at the face, which showed traces of former beauty Whose fault was it that her life ended so early and so sadly?
Suddenly the invalid opened her big black eyes, and gazed at the ex-convict as sitting by her bedside with folded hands
”How did you get here?” she asked, timidly