ed in the
negro's cabin, and to whom she had promised to return quickly.

The clerk withdrew, and announced her wishes, to his employer.

"Vell," said Mr. Swartz. "Tell her to come in."

She walked up to the door, and as she reached the threshold it opened
and Mr. Elder, stood before her. She spoke not a word as he started
from surprise at her unexpected appearance. She only gazed upon him
for awhile with a calm and steady gaze. Hastily dropping his eyes to
the ground, Mr. Elder recovered his usual composure, and brushing past
the soldier's wife left the store, while she entered the office where
Mr. Swartz was.

"Oot tam," he muttered as she entered. "I shall give dat clerk te
tevil for sending dis voman to me. Sum peggar I vill pet."

"I have called on you again, Mr. Swartz," Mrs. Wentworth began.

Mr. Swartz looked at her as if trying to remember where they had met
before, but he failed to recognize her features.

"I don't know dat you vash here to see me pefore," he replied.

"You do not recognize me," she remarked, and then added: "I am the
lady who sold her last piece of furniture to you some time ago."

He frowned as she reminded him who she was, for he then surmised what
the object of her visit was.

"Oh!" he answered, "I recollect you now, and vat do you vant?"

"I have come upon the same errand," she replied. "I have come once
more to ask you to aid me, but this time come barren of anything to
induce you to comply with my request. Nothing but the generous
promptings of your heart can I hold up before you to extend the
charity I now solicit."

"You have come here to peg again," he observed, "but I cannot give you
anything. Gootness! ven vill te place pe rid of all te peggers?"

"I cannot help my position," she said. "A cruel fortune has deprived
my of him who used to support me, and I am now left alone with my
children to eke out the wretched existence of a pauper. Last night I
was turned out of my room by the man who left here a few seconds ago,
because I could not pay for my rent. One of my children was sick, but
he cared not for that. I told him of my poverty, and he turned a deaf
ear towards me. I was forced to leave, and my child has become worse
from exposure in the night air."

"And vot have I cot to do mit all dis," he enquired.

"You can give me the means of purchasing medicine for my sick child,"
she replied. "The amount thus bestowed cannot cause you any
inconvenience, while it may b