the good
With firm resolve, that all will work for good.
This, the true wisdom, man but seldom learns,
Except 'tis taught him by adversity.
Thank God that this, your trial, has not come
As punishment of your misdeeds--but sent,
As 'twere, like Job's of old, to try your faith
In truth and justice and God's righteousness!
Keep your integrity--all will be well.
_Enter_ DR. MARGRAVE _hastily._

DR. MARGRAVE

Joy! joy!--the clue is found!

JUDGE.

What? Where's the child?

DR. MARGRAVE

The child! Inquire for the young lady now--
For such, I trust, you'll find your Isabelle.
I've seen the nurse who carried her away:
'Twas she who sent for me--that dying woman.
Let doctors take encouragement from this,
That in their duties they will gain rewards.

JUDGE.

But Isabelle, my ward--where is she now?

DR. MARGRAVE

I'd leave my bed again to-night to seek her,
Only it would be groping in the dark.
Pray, do not look so sad--we'll find her yet;
I have the clue, here is the deposition--
I took it from the dying woman's lips.
She died an hour ago. She hither came
To find you out and own her crime.

JUDGE.

The child--
Where did she leave her?

DR. MARGRAVE

Have a moment's patience.
The woman said she did not dare to carry
The child among her kindred at the West;
They would have found the imposition out,
As Isabelle resembled not her daughter.
And so the woman traveled to Virginia,
And there, with a kind family, she left
The orphan to her fate.

JUDGE.

With whom?

DR. MARGRAVE

The name
She has forgotten--but she left a token,
Half of this severed chain (_takes out half a necklace_),
with "Isabelle"
Engraven, as this has "De Vere" upon it.

JUDGE. (_snatching the chain_).

Ah! this was Isabelle's--her mother's, too!
This is a clue indeed. I'll go at once
To seek her out and find the other half.

GODFREY (_taking it out_).

'Tis here. And thus may Truth be ever found
By all who seek her earnestly, and wait
Her advent in the time and way appointed!
The way is righteousness--the time is God's.

JUDGE.

I am confounded by these miracles.
Explain--