as enough for her that it had come back. "Grandpapa must
know; he must be told!" went on Jinty, determined not to spare herself.

When the professor heard the whole story he was very quiet indeed. But a
few days after he went up to London on a little visit, and when he
returned he called Jinty into the study.

"This," he said, opening a case, "will perhaps make up to the friendless
little stranger for your unjust suspicions!" He handed Jinty a
pearl-edged locket with a painting of a Chinese lady's head. "Chinese
faces are so similar that it may serve as a remembrance of her own
mother. And this, Jinty dearling, will keep alive in your memory one of
our Lord's behests!" From another case came a dainty silver bangle
inside of which Jinty read, with misty eyes, the engraved words: _Judge
not!_

But already their meaning was engraved on her heart; and--as time won Ah
Lon's shy affections--she and the little Chinese stranger grew to be as
true sisters under the roof of Old Studley.

[Sidenote: The artistic life sometimes leaves those who follow it
largely dependent upon the stimulus and the aid which the devotion of
others may supply. Rembrandt was a case in point, and the story of his
sister's life is worth recalling.]

Rembrandt's Sister

A Noble Life Recalled

BY

HENRY WILLIAMS

The first glimpse we get of the noble woman who is the subject of this
sketch gives us the key to her whole character. Her brother, the famous
Paul Rembrandt, had come home from school in disgrace, and it is as his
defender that Louise Gerretz first shows herself to the world. Her
tender, sympathetic heart could find excuse for a brother who would not
learn Latin because even as a child his heart was set upon becoming a
painter. We know how he succeeded, but it is not always one's early
desires are fulfilled so completely as they were in Paul's case.

It was in the evening of the very same day on which Louise championed
her brother's cause that we find her almost heart-broken, yet bravely
hiding her own grief and comforting her younger sisters and brothers in
a terrible affliction, the most terrible that can overtake a family of
young children. This was the sudden death of the beloved mother, who had
been an invalid for some time. The father was a drunken sot, who had
fallen into heavy slumber even while his dying wife was uttering her
last request to him on earth; this was that he would make an artist of
the young Paul, inst