hink about your side of
it."

"Gertrude! Gertrude!"

The voice rang through the house as no voice had rung through it since
Maud went away, and there was that in the sound of it, which made
Gertrude and Reggie spring to their feet and rush to the door.

In the hall was a confused group, and in the centre of the group was a
little figure in a short black kilted frock with a sailor jacket, and
a big white hat with a black ribbon that half hid the fluffy brown
hair, that was turning golden at the roots.

For a moment Gertrude stood staring, as Denys had done, then the
familiar blue eyes met hers, and the silvery little voice said
gleefully,

"Hullo, Gertrude! I've come back."

"Maud! Maud! Oh, my darling, my darling!"

* * * * *

Reggie returned to the North on Monday, and when he went, a beautiful
little half hoop of diamonds sparkled upon Gertrude's left hand.
It was Reggie's greatest treasure, for it had been his mother's
engagement ring; but the wearing of that ring was the only
enlightenment which Old Keston received about Gertrude's and Reggie's
affairs.

As Mrs. Brougham observed, people could see what they liked, but they
did not deserve to hear anything.

* * * * *

"And so," said Mrs. Gray, as Reggie finished telling his tale in her
drawing-room, "and so nobody knows who took the child or how she came
to be found again."

"Nobody," repeated Reggie with emphasis. But he was mistaken. There
was one man who knew. A man who had gone forth at last "in the
strength of the Lord God," and who had conquered. A man, who was
holding out loving, strengthening hands to his wife, and to many
another tempted one; but he never told anybody what he knew, not even
Tom, for Jane was Tom's sister!

* * * * *

[Illustration: The child's hand lingered on the large, heavy handle of
the big door.]

STORIES BY EMMA MARSHALL.

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