74. THE SILVER LAKE STORIES.

“Ts this you, Maggy ?” said he.

“To be sure it is,’ she answered ;
“but only to think that this should be
you !”

He then told her that he succeeded
in finding his father and mother, and
by. means of the clothing convinced
them that he was their child; he told
her of their joy and delight at his
being restored to them; and of the hap-
piness of his brothers and sisters. He
had never forgotten Maggy’s kindness
to him, and as he supposed she would
now be about eighteen years old, he
had come to say to her that it was now
in his: power to place her at school,