is he hoped to start life afresh.

'But you'll never rob me of my bairns, John Henry,' said the old woman,
in alarm; 'you'll never take them away, when we've all been so happy
together!'

And the bare possibility of losing the children seemed quite to damp
poor old grandmother's joy in getting her beloved John Henry home again.

'Well, mother, we must see,' he said; 'we must ask God to order for us.'

And God did order most graciously, both for mother and son.

The old woman told her trouble to 'my lady,' the next time that she
drove through the lodge-gates in her pony-carriage, and she was very
sympathising, and most anxious that the children should not have to
leave their happy country home. She mentioned it to the squire, and he
very kindly offered Poppy's father a situation on his estate as
gamekeeper. His life in America had made him far more fit for that kind
of work than for carrying on his old trade, and he was most thankful not
to have to take his children back to the city. So they all lived on
together in the pretty lodge in the lovely valley, a happy little
family, all loving the same Lord, and walking on the road to the same
Home.

But Poppy never forgot her mother. And as Enoch and Elijah grew older,
she would sit with them on the hillside and talk to them about her, and
pointing to the blue sky she would tell them that their mother was
waiting for them there, and would be very much disappointed if they did
not come.

And often, as they sat outside the lodge in the quiet summer evenings,
they and their father would sing together, 'Mother's favourite hymn,'
and dear old grandmother would come to the door, and join in a quavering
voice in the beautiful words:

'Jesus, I will trust Thee, trust Thee with my soul!
Guilty, lost, and helpless, Thou canst make me whole.
There is none in heaven or on earth like Thee;
Thou hast died for sinners--therefore, Lord, for me.'

THE END.

Butler & Tanner, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome, and London.

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