lad to hear you say all that, because Jesus came to save
people like you; but He does not call them such bad names. He only
calls them the `lost.'"

"Well, I suppose you're right, dear child," said the man, after a pause;
"an' I do think the Blessed Lord has saved me, for I never before felt
as I do now--hatred of my old bad ways, and an _awful_ desire to do
right for His sake. If any o' my mates had told me I'd feel an' act
like this a week ago, I'd have called him a fool. I can't understand
it. I suppose that God must have changed me altogether. My only fear
is that I'll fall back again into the old bad ways--I'm so helpless for
anything good, d'ee see."

"You forget," returned Eve, with another of her tearful smiles; "He
says, `I will never leave thee nor forsake thee'--"

"No, I don't forget that," interrupted Dick quickly; "that is what the
young preacher in the mission smack said, an' it has stuck to me. It's
that as keeps me up. But I didn't come here to speak about my thoughts
an' feelin's," he continued, rising and taking a chair close to the bed,
on which he placed a heavy bag. "I come here, Eve, to make
restitootion. There's every farthin' I stole from your poor mother. I
kep' it intendin' to go to Lun'on, and have a good long spree--so it's
all there. You'll give it to her, but don't tell her who stole it.
That's a matter 'tween you an' me an' the Almighty. Just you say that
the miserable sinner who took it has bin saved by Jesus Christ, an' now
returns it and axes her pardon."

Eve gladly promised, but while she was yet speaking, heavy footsteps
were heard approaching the hut. The man started up as if to leave, and
the two boys, suddenly awakening to the fact that they were
eavesdropping, fled silently round the corner of the hut and hid
themselves. The passer-by, whoever he was, seemed to change his mind,
for the steps ceased to sound for a few moments, then they were heard
again, with diminishing force, until they finally died away.

A moment later, and the key was heard to turn, and the door of the hut
to open and close, after which the heavy tread of the repentant
fisherman was heard as he walked quickly away.

The boys listened in silence till all was perfectly still.

"Well, now," said Bob, drawing a long breath, "who'd have thought that
things would have turned out like this?"

"Never heard of sich a case in _my_ life before," responded Pat Stiver
with emphasis, as if he were a