so very poor. You have the exact address?"

"Oh yes," Molly replied, "we wrote it down. But oh, Auntie dear, you
_will_ let us go with you."

Auntie hesitated a little, but yielded in the end.

"You will promise to let me go in first," she said, "just to see that it
is quite respectable, and no infectious illness or anything that could
hurt you."

* * * * *

Bernard hardly knew his little wife again when he got home that evening.
The fifty francs had greatly cheered her the night before, but their
influence could not explain the state of delight between tears and
laughter in which he found her this time.

"Oh, my friend--oh, Bernard," she exclaimed, "what a happy thing it was
for us that you found the watch's owner and took it at once! They have
been here; only fancy such distinguished ladies coming themselves so far
just to see if they could be of any service to us in return for ours to
them. That was how they put it--was it not touching? The old lady"--poor
Auntie, I don't think she would _quite_ have liked that!--"to whom
belongs the watch, so good and kind, oh, so kind; and the younger ones
two angels, _angels_ simply, I repeat it, Bernard. And when they heard
all--I could hide nothing, they questioned me with such sympathy, about
Paul's bronchitis and all--they set to work to consider how best they
could help us. The lady gave Paul, into his own little hand, another
note of fifty francs. That will clear off everything, and make us quite
as well off as before his illness; and besides that, they have a good
deal of work they want me to do, that will be well paid, better paid
than what I do for the shops. And they will try to recommend me to some
of their friends,--what I have always wished for, to work for ladies
direct instead of for the shops. Oh, Bernard, it was a happy day for us
when you found that old watch!"

There is no need to say that Auntie and her nieces were as good as their
word.

"On the whole," said Molly, with her customary philosophy, "it was
almost worth while to go through all the unhappiness for the sake of the
delight of getting the watch back again, especially as it really has
been a good thing for those nice poor people. But, Auntie, you will have
all your dresses made with watch-pockets now, won't you?"

"Indeed I will," said Auntie with a smile, "and thank you for your good
advice, my Molly. Who would think you had ever been the complacent
possessor