please, so
that I shan't be outside the gate. And please will you do it now, for
I don't like waiting, and tell me when you've done it, so that I can
say thank you.'

There was great silence in that room. The earnestness of the child
made the grown-up person very grave.

She had never yet in her life come to this crisis. And then in a very
few minutes came an emphatic 'Thank you very much,' from Bobby's lips
as he wriggled down amongst his pillows with a sigh of satisfaction.

'I feel Jesus has done it,' he said, with a nod of his curly head. 'He
just put His hand on my heart, and it all turned white.'

'I'm so glad, darling.'

Lady Isobel stooped to kiss him with tears in her eyes.

'And now, Bobby, you must always try to be a good boy, and love Jesus
Christ, and do what He tells you to. Isn't there a little hymn:

Oh, dearly, dearly has He loved,
And we must love Him too,
And trust in His redeeming blood,
And try His works to do.'

Bobby nodded again.

'I says that to Nurse sometimes, but I never does understand it. And
now let's look at the other picshers; but first, please, say the text
to me again.'

Lady Isobel repeated it, and Bobby repeated it after her with quiet
satisfaction:

'"Blessed are they that wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb, that
they may have right to the tree of life, and enter in through the gates
into the City."'

Then he wanted to know about the tree of life; and when at length Lady
Isobel left him she said to Nurse:

'He is an extraordinary child, Nurse. I feel as if I had been teaching
in Sunday-school. I have never done such a thing before in my life!'

Chapter V.

NOBBLES' MISFORTUNE.

Bobby was soon up and about again, but he had a great disappointment
when one day his friend, Lady Isobel, came to him to wish him good-bye.

'I am going back to India,' she told him; and though her face was grave
her eyes were glad.

'Oh!' cried Bobby, clasping her round the neck. 'Take me with you, and
then I'll look for my father. Don't go away and leave me, you
understand so!'

'If I had not met you I don't believe I should be going,' said Lady
Isobel with a smile and a sigh. 'We have helped each other, Bobby. I
have discovered that I was fast getting a very selfish woman, and so
I'm going to join an old friend of mine in India who has a school for
little black children and women, and I'm going to try to make them
happy by telling them about y