hy the young, white-haired mother asked her son, when he was setting
off for foreign lands, to bring her home a sprig of edelweiss.

When Lenz returned from starting the two youths on their way, he found
a garland of fresh flowers about his mother's picture. Eighteen years
ago that day she had been buried, and Annele always kept the
anniversary. They felt in their hearts, though they never said it, that
her blessed memory bloomed ever fresh within them, like the flowers in
the field.

Faller's widow and daughter sat down to dinner with them at noon. "If
my husband had but lived to see our two sons set off on their travels
together!" sighed the poor woman. Lenz tried to comfort her by telling
how well the twins were doing that Katharine had adopted. One had
already risen to be sergeant in the army, the other was his adopted
father's assistant, and would doubtless be his heir. Faller's daughter,
a tall, slender girl of fifteen, said she had promised to write to
William and her brother the first of every month.

After dinner Lenz sat down to his work as usual. Eighteen years ago it
had calmed a greater grief than the departure of his son occasioned him
to-day. Annele sat by him with her sewing; no longer full of an unrest
which she communicated to him, but rather shedding a beneficent
influence around her. His work prospered better when she looked on. She
spoke little, and the few words she did say showed within what a narrow
circle her thoughts were now confined. "William takes six shirts with
him, made from the cotton your blessed mother spun."

The places of the two apprentices were already filled; for parents the
country round were anxious to have their boys learn their trade with
Lenz. One of the new-comers was, to Franzl's great delight, a grandson
of the weight-manufacturer of Knuslingen.

Towards evening the schoolmaster came up the hill with a great bundle
of papers under his arm, labelled in large letters, "Acts of the
Clockmakers' Union." He asked Lenz to go a little way into the wood
with him before the other members arrived, and during their absence
Annele ranged two rows of chairs about the room, for Lenz was now
president of the association.

[Illustration: Edelweiss.]

MRS. BRASSEY'S AROUND THE WORLD IN THE YACHT SUNBEAM. With Chart and
Illustrations. 8vo. $3.50.

The history of this leisurely and luxurious cruise of the Brassey
family and a few friends, in their own yacht, is given in such eas