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134 UNOPENED PARCELS. and striking the table a heavy blow as I spoke, 'you are guilty of a heinous sin.' "' What in the world do you mean he asked; but at last he was looking up. "L I mean that it is downright sin not to be thankful to God for having been able to lead the life you have done for years past; restraining yourself, and setting an example the value of which will never be known to you till the day of judgment.' .. "I broke down here, for I thought of the help it had been to myself. My dear friend !' exclaimed he,-and then he broke down too. I had prevailed. "And now, Honor," resumed my father, "if you were to guess for a hundred years, you could never guess what this trouble of my hero's was. It was no laughing matter, and yet I know you will smile when I tell you that he had when a child deceived his family by pretending to see ghosts, and had never undeceived them up to that moment." Oh, but why?" was my natural exclamation.