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I seemed to hear her voice again, "The truth, Ellie, remember nothing but good ever comes of the truth." It flitted through my mind as a little, sweet memory, having nothing to do with what was happening at the moment, for the thought in my mind was all, "What has become of the man with the revolver?" Father had sat down opposite me on a corner of the table, but Mr.
Father put my coat around me and said, "I hope that is all," very coldly. "Yes," the Chief said, "except that this young lady must understand that she is not to speak of what she saw this morning." "Remember, Ellie," father said, "if your friends talk to you about it, you have heard and seen nothing."
In the midst of the hurry, the floor-walker gave Ellie a message to deliver to one of the clerks in the basement. "Don't delay!" he called after her. Eager to please, the child made her way through the throng, and was on the point of darting down the stairs, when, alas! her foot caught, she tripped, gave a little scream, and was precipitated down the entire flight.
"And I will tell you everything about myself; and you will tell me how I ought to do in all sorts of things? that will be next best to being with you. And then you will keep me right." "I won't promise you that, Ellie," said John, smiling; "you must learn to keep yourself right." "I know you will, though, however you may smile. What next?" "Read no novels." "I never do, John.
Eh!" cried he, and dropped Tom on to the seaweed, whence he was gone in a moment. "But it was a water-baby!" cried Ellie. "Ah, it is gone!" And she jumped down off the rock. But she slipped and fell with her head on a sharp rock, and lay quite still. The professor picked her up and took her home, and she was put to bed.
"But I was wishing only there is really no use in wishing; still, just supposing there was I was thinking if I could only get that doll for Ellie, how happy she would be. You know she has to be alone so much, and she gets awful blue sometimes; though she won't let on, 'cause it would fret mother. But the doll would be great company for her. We've neither of us ever had one."
There, in a little stuffy room, upon the top floor of the old house, she spent the long, sultry summer; there she remained when autumn came; there the approaching Christmas holidays were likely to find her. How was it, then, that Ellie was generally cheery and blithe? Perhaps her mother's prayer each morning, as she bade her good-bye to go to work, had most to do with it.
She looks real bad you don't want her to go in consumption like that Ellie Hess over near my place." "Oh, mercy no! Becky, how you scare abody! I'll fix her up some boneset tea to-day yet. I got some on the garret that Millie dried last summer." Amanda protested against the boneset but to please her mother she promised to swallow faithfully the doses of bitter tea.
Oh, I thank God for those words! He saw reason to strike, and his hand did not spare; but his love shed tears for them! and he is just the same now." Some drops fell from Alice's eyes, not sorrowful ones; Ellen had hid her face. 'Let us never doubt His love, dear Ellie, and surely then we can bear whatever that love may bring upon us. I do trust it.
"I have taken all the pains I could." "That is the sure way to success, Ellie. But, Ellie, I want to ask you something. What was that you said to Margaret Dunscombe about wanting money for a New Year's present?" "You know it, then!" cried Ellen, starting up. "Oh, I'm so glad! I wanted to speak to you about it, so I didn't know what to do, and I thought I oughtn't to.
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