"

"Yes," said Violet, "we know that He has all power in heaven and earth
and will never suffer any real evil to befall one of His people.

"'He will not suffer thy foot to be moved; he, that keepth thee will not
slumber.'

"Levis, did you know those men?"

"One of them is Ajax."

"Is it possible?" she exclaimed. "What a return for all the kindness you
have shown to him and his!"

"Ajax! There, I was sure I heard Ajax's voice in the hall while the
sheriff was here," cried Lulu. "He must have been the one who was down
on his knees trying to break the safe lock when I peeped in at the
crack. I didn't see his face; but the other was a white man."

"Yes," said Max; "a man we'd seen before."

"The tramp you saw when out riding?" asked his father.

"Yes, sir."

"I recognized him too," said Lulu. "Papa, what will be done with him
and Ajax?"

"They will have to be tried for burglary and if convicted, will be sent
to the penitentiary for a term of years."

"Papa, will we have to appear as witnesses on the trial?" asked Max.

"Yes."

"The men did not attempt any resistance to the arrest?" Violet said
inquiringly.

"No; they saw it would be quite useless."

After a little more talk the captain said, "Now I think it will be best
for us all to go to our beds again and try to sleep till the usual hour
for rising."

"Papa, I feel so afraid," said Grace, holding tight to him as he would
have laid her in the bed.

"My darling, try not to feel so," he said, caressing her; "try to
believe that God will take care of you."

"Please ask him again, papa," she pleaded.

Then they all knelt while the captain asked in a few simple, earnest
words that He who neither slumbers nor sleeps would be their shield,
defending them from all evil, and that trusting in His protecting care
they might be able to banish every fear and lay them down in peace and
sleep.

"I am not afraid now, papa," Grace said, as they rose from their knees.
"You may please put me in my bed, and I think I'll go to sleep directly,
for I'm very tired."

"You will allow them to sleep past the usual hour, my dear, will you
not?" asked Violet.

"Yes," he said, "I wish you, children, to sleep on as long as you can,
and if possible make up all you have lost by the visit of the burglars;
it will not matter if you take your breakfast later than usual by even
so much as an hour or two."

"But that will make us late for lessons, papa," suggested Max.

"W