alled to see me.

"I have not been able, all day," said he, "to get the image of that poor
woman and her daughter out of my mind. What are their circumstances,
Doctor?"

"They live with Squire Floyd," I answered, "and he is very poor. I think
Delia and her daughter support themselves by their needles."

"What a fall!" he said, with pity in his tones.

"Yes, it was a sad fall--sad, but salutary, I trust."

"How was she after her separation from Mr. Dewey?"

"Very bitter and rebellious, for a time. His marriage seemed to arouse
every evil passion of her nature. I almost shuddered to hear the
maledictions she called down upon the head of his wife one day, when
she rode by in the elegant equipage of which she had once been the proud
owner. She fairly trembled with rage. Since then, the discipline of the
inevitable in life has done its better work. She has grown subdued and
patient, and is doing all a mother in such narrow circumstances can do
for her children."

"What of Dewey's second wife?" asked Mr. Wallingford.

"She has applied for a divorce from him, on the ground that he is a
convicted felon; and will get a decree in her favor, without doubt."

"What a history!" he exclaimed. Then, after a pause, he asked--

"Cannot something be done for Mr. Floyd?"

"I have understood," said I, "that the company about to start the mills
again have engaged him as manager."

"Is that so? Just what I was thinking," he replied, with animation. "I
must look after that matter, and see that it does not fall through."

And he was in this, as in all things, as good as his word. It needed
only a favorable intimation from him to decide the company to place
their works in the hands of Squire Floyd, who was a man of skill and
experience in manufacturing, and one in whose integrity the fullest
confidence might be reposed.

A month has passed; and Squire Floyd, engaged at a salary of two
thousand dollars a year, is again at the mills, busy in superintending
repairs, improvements, and additions. A few more weeks, and the rattle
of industry will commence, and the old aspect of things show itself in
S----. May the new mill owners be wiser than their predecessors!

Squire Floyd has removed from the poor tenement lately the home of his
depressed family, and is back in the pleasant homestead he abandoned
years ago, when pride and ambition impelled him to put on a grander
exterior. It is understood that the company have bought the house,