just what you would like him to be now.
Philip is a true Christian gentleman. I expect great things from
Philip. And mamma, you can never surely mean that you are surprised."

"Not altogether surprised, perhaps. But--we will not speak of it,
Davie, until--"

"Until Philip does. Well, I don't think that will be very long. But,
mamma, I cannot bear that you should be unhappy because of this."

"Unhappy? No, not unhappy! But--I could never make you understand. We
will not speak about it."

They went on in silence along the walk till they came to the garden
gate, and there they lingered for a while.

"Mamma," said David, "do you remember one night, a very stormy night,
when you and I watched for papa's coming home? I don't know why I
should always think of that night more than of many others, unless it
was almost the last time he ventured forth to meet the storm. I think
you were afraid even then, mamma?"

"I remember. Yes, I was afraid." David stood silent beside her. The
voices of the children on their homeward way came through the stillness.
In a minute they could see them, moving in and out among the long
shadows, which the last gleam of sunshine made, their hands and laps
filled with flowers and trailing green--a very pretty picture. The
mother stood watching them in silence till they drew near. Then the
face she turned to David was bright with both smiles and tears.

"David," she said, "when I remember your father's life and death, and
how gently we have been dealt with since then, how wisely guided, how
strongly guarded, and how the way has opened before us, my heart fills
full and my lips would fain sing praises. I do not think there can come
into my life anything to make me afraid any more."

David's answer was in words not his own: "Thou wilt keep him in perfect
peace whose mind is stayed on Thee, because he trusteth in Thee."

THE END.

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