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We gathered together in the middle room, and waited for her to tell us, but she sat rocking, as if her life depended on it, full five minutes before she could speak it seemed an hour to me finally she screamed out: "He's come back!" "Whom do you mean?" I cried, while mother and Aunt Hildy exchanged glances. "He came last night; he's over to the Home, Miss Patten, d'ye hear?"
"Yes, yes," said Jane, "the very one; gall and worm-wood I drank, and all for him; he ran away and " "Yes," added Aunt Hildy, "tell it all. Silas and our boy went with him, father and son, and Satan led 'em all." "Has he suffered much?" said Clara. "Oh, yes, marm, but he says he can't live without me! He hain't never been married; I'm fifty-four, and he's the same age."
"Oh, you thar, Marm Lucy?" cried the farmer, with a sigh of relief that was half a chuckle, "Now, thar! you tell Hildy that folks does sometimes drop in onexpected-like folks from a consid'able distance sometimes. Why, I've known 'em " But here he stopped suddenly.
"But they called each other 'our royal brother' and 'our beloved sister; and they were always paying each other fine compliments, and saying how much they loved each other, even in the middle of a war, when they were fighting as hard as they could." "Humph!" said Bubble, "nice kind o folks they must ha' been. Well, I must go, Miss Hildy," he added, reluctantly.
We named this the Turner Fund, although Jane insisted it should be Demond. John desired to donate his gift from Aunt Hildy to the Turner Fund, but Louis objected, saying: "John, you have no right to do this; you need to get a house for yourself before you help others. It would not be right to take your money, and we cannot accept it."
Aunt Hildy was not as strong when 1860 dawned upon us, and she said on New Year's evening, which with us was always devoted to a sort of recalling of the past: "Don't believe I'll be here when sixty-one comes marchin' in." Clara looked at her with a strange light in her eyes, and said: "Dear Aunt Hildy, wait for me, please; I'd like to go just when you do."
Then Southern Mary and her husband laughed, not in derision, for they admired Aunt Hildy, and Mr. Waterman said: "If men had your backbone, Mrs. Patten, there would be a different state of things altogether." "My husband is almost an Abolitionist," said Mary. "Some of our people dislike him greatly; but my father is a good man and he does not illtreat one of his people.
She lived alone and in her secluded woodland home led a quiet and happy life; she was never idle, but always doing for others. Few really understood her, but she was not only a marvel of truth but possessed original thought, in days when so little time was given in our country to anything save the struggle for a living. It is only a few years since Aunt Hildy was laid away from our sight.
Aunt Hildy had replied: "Yes, yes, Deacon Grover, it would be nice for lazy folks to let the minister do all the saving, and somebody else all the paying. I believe faith without works is jest exactly like heavy bread, and will not be accepted at the table of the Lord." "He never said another word to me," said she; "that man knows he has a right to be better."
We found you in the road and took you in. You had lost your way." "Oh! oh!" she murmured, "can I stay all night?" "Oh, yes, stay a week or two, and get rested!" "May I go to sleep again? Who knows me here?" and again she fell asleep. By this time Aunt Hildy appeared on the scene, and commanded me to go home and stay there. "'Tain't no place for you; I've brought my herbs to stay and doctor her.
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