evening. The moon
was rising over the harbor; it was a warm, still night. Sentries were
pacing to and fro, for Boston was surrounded by sixteen thousand hostile
men in arms.

The nine o'clock bell rang.

"I must go back to the camp," said Franklin, for he had met Samuel
within the American lines.

"Cousin Benjamin, these are perilous times," said Samuel. "Justice is
what the world needs. Make those pamphlets live, and return them with
father's name honored in yours to my family."

"I will do so or perish. I am in dead earnest."

He ascended the hill and looked down on the British camps in Boston
town.

Franklin had been sent to Cambridge as a commissioner to Washington's
army at this time. It was October, 1775.

He longed to see his sister Jane--"Jenny"--once more. His sister was now
past sixty years of age. Foreseeing the siege of Boston, he had written
to her to come to Philadelphia and to make her home with him. But she
was unwilling to remove from her own city and old home, though she was
forced to find shelter within the lines of the American army.

One night, after her removal from Boston, there came a gentle knock at
the door of her room. She opened it guardedly, and looked earnestly into
the face of the stranger.

"Jenny!"

"My own brother!--do I indeed see you alive? Let me put my hand into
yours once more."

He drew her to him.

"Jenny, I have longed for this hour."

"But what brings you here at this time? You did not come wholly to see
me? Sit down, and let us bring up all the past again."

He sat down beside her, holding her hand.

"Jenny, you ask what brings me here. Do you remember Uncle Ben?"

"Whose name you bear? Never shall I forget him. The memory of a great
man grows as years increase."

"Jenny, I've heard the bells in Ecton ring, and I found in
Nottinghamshire letters from Uncle Benjamin, and they coupled your name
when you was a girl with mine when I was a boy; do you remember what he
said to us on that showery summer day when all the birds were singing?"

"Yes, Ben--I must call you 'Ben'--he said that 'more than wealth, more
than fame, more than anything, was the power of the human heart, and
that that power grows by seeking the good of others.'"

"What he said was true, but that was not all he said."

"He told you to be true to your country--to live for the things that
live."

"Jenny, that is why I am here. He told you to be true to your home. You
have been that, Jenn