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ge or modify her part. After a time they varied the performance with a wedding, in which innumerable Dr Mellons were united to endless Lilly Blythes; but after the real wedding took place, and the cake had been utterly consumed, they returned to their first love--Lost and Found, as they termed it or, the Gan-muver's Play. So, in course of time, the house over the way was actually taken and furnished. Edie was installed therein as empress; I as her devoted slave--when not otherwise engaged. And, to say truth, even when I _was_ otherwise engaged I always managed to leave my heart at home. Anatomists may, perhaps, be puzzled by this statement. If so--let them be puzzled! Gan-muver was also installed as queen-dowager, in a suite of apartments consisting of one room and a closet. It was not in Dr McTougall's nursery alone that the game of Lost and Found was played. In a little schoolroom, not far distant from our abode, that game was played by Edie--assisted by Robin Slidder and myself--with considerable success. Robin crossed the street to me--came over, as it were--with Edith the conqueror and our doggie, and afterwards became a most valuable ally in searching for, drawing forth, tempting out and gathering in the lost. He and I sought for them in some of the lowest slums of London. Robin's knowledge of their haunts and ways, and, his persuasive voice, had influence where none but himself--or some one like him--could have made any impression. We tempted them to our little hall with occasional feasts, in which buns, oranges, raisins, gingerbread, and tea played prominent parts, and when we had gathered them in, Edith came to them, like an angel of light and preached to them the gospel of Jesus, at once by example, tone, look, and word. Among others who came to our little social meetings was the Slogger. That unpunished criminal not only launched with, apparently, heart and soul into the good cause, but he was the means of inducing many others to come, and when, in after years, his old comrade, Mr Brassey, returned from his enforced residence in foreign parts, the Slogger sought for and found him, and stuck to him with the pertinacity of his bulldog nature until he fairly brought him in. Thus that good work went on with us. Thus it is going on at the present time in many, many parts of our favoured land, and thus it will go on, with God's blessing, until His people shall all be gathered into the fold o
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