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140 UCNOPENED PARCELS. woke him, young as he was, to a sense that he was acting deceitfully, which he had never fully realized before. He could never have said the thing to her, he added. Nevertheless, when nurse came forward and gave her version of all 'the poor dear child' had seen and said, he stood by helplessly sobbing till his mother folded him in her arms and consoled him: and so the evil went on ... "There! that is the worst !" cried my father, interrupting himself here, and returning the rather vehement hand-squeeze with which I expressed my indignation at his hero's behaviour. "Now you know how he became a make-believe ghostseer, Honor. Condemn the offence as much as yoti please, but let us have no inhuman human judgments upon the offender. Only the One to whom all hearts are open can judge of individual guilt, because He only can measure the amount of conscious responsibility. Who can guess at it even, in the case of a child ?" I relaxed my hold of my father's hand here, and stooped to kiss it in silent apology for the unspoken judgment my heart