ole
police force of Boston to your aid;" and Master Simon ran away to
attend to the affairs of Sands & Co., which Katy innocently concluded
must be suffering by this time from his absence.

Poor Katy! with a heavy heart she wandered home to tell her mother of
this new misfortune.

CHAPTER IV.

KATY MATURES A MAGNIFICENT SCHEME.

"I suppose it is all for the best, mother," said Katy, when she had
told her sad story of disappointment. "I can't get those words out of
my head, since you have told me about my father. I feel just as though
everything would come out right, it does go very bad just now."

"I am glad you feel so, Katy," added Mrs. Redburn. "It will make you
much better contented with your lot. I have suffered so much that I
cannot help repining a little, though I feel that my destiny and yours
is in the hands of the wise Father, who bringeth good out of evil."

Katy had not yet reached that spirit of meek submission to the will of
Heaven which looks upward in the hour of trial, not doubting that the
all-wise God knows best what is for the good of his children. If she
believed that misfortunes were all for the best, it was only an impulse
derived from the story of her father; a kind of philosophy which was
very convenient for the evil day, because it permitted the sufferer to
lie down and take things easily. It was not a filial trust in the
wisdom and mercy of the heavenly Father that sustained her as the
clouds grew thicker and blacker around her; it was only a cold
indifference, a feeling of the head rather than the heart.

But Mrs. Redburn had been reading the New Testament during Katy's
absence, and a better and purer spirit pervaded her soul than when the
weight of the blow first struck so heavily upon her. She was well
educated, and capable of reasoning in a just manner over her
misfortunes; and those words on the watch seemed to convey a new
meaning to her, as she considered them in the light of Christian
revelation. They were not the basis of a cold philosophy; they assured
her of the paternal care of God. The thought strengthened and revived
her, and when Katy appeared to announce a new trial, she received the
intelligence with calmness, and felt more ready than ever before to
leave her destiny in the hands of Heaven. For an hour she conversed
with Katy on this subject, and succeeded in giving her some new views
in relation to the meaning of the words she had so often repeated that
afternoon