Graham, soft, and warm and precious, a sweet burden to bear. I
bought him a supper and a breakfast of bread and milk with the money,
I had saved for drink, and now, both for his sake and mine, I am out
seeking for work. I have locked him in, so that no one can harm or carry
him away while I earn enough to buy him his dinner, and maybe something
better to wear, poor little homeless thing!"

There was a genuine earnestness and pathos about the man that could not
be mistaken.

"I think," said Mr. Graham, his voice not quite steady, "that God
brought us together this morning. I know Mr. Paulding. Let us go first
to the mission, and have some talk with him. You must have a bath
and better, and cleaner clothes before you are in a condition to get
employment."

The bath and a suit of partly-worn but good clean clothes were supplied
at the mission house.

"Now come with me, and I will find you something to do," said the old
friend.

But Andrew Hall stood hesitating.

"The little child--I told him I'd come back soon. He's locked up all
alone, poor baby!"

He spoke with a quiver in his voice.

"Oh, true, true!" answered Mr. Graham; "the baby must be looked after;"
and he explained to the missionary.

"I will go round with you and get the child," said Mr. Paulding. "My
wife will take care of him while you are away with Mr. Graham."

They found little Andy sitting patiently on the floor. He did not know
the friend who had given him a home and food and loving words, and
looked at him half scared and doubting. But his voice made the child
spring to his feet with a bound, and flushed his thin-face with the joy
of a glad recognition.

Mrs. Paulding received him with a true motherly kindness, and soon a
bath and clean clothing wrought as great a change in the child as they
had done in the man.

"I want your help in saving him," said Mr. Graham, aside, to the
missionary. "He was once among our most respectable citizens, a good
church-member, a good husband and father, a man of ability and large
influence. Society lost much when it lost him. He is well worth saving,
and we must do it if possible. God sent him this little child to touch
his heart and flood it with old memories, and then he led me to come
down here that I might meet and help him just when his good purposes
made help needful and salvation possible. It is all of his loving care
and wise providence of his tender mercy, which is over the poorest
and weakest an