18 Fred the Apprentice.

over the leaves of the books placed on his knees.
What numberless hopes, what innumerable plans

He was am for the first time.

 

CHAPTER IIL
THE KIND BROTHER.

    
  
 

OZX 2NE summer evening, when Fred, after

A 3 having quitted the factory in which
he worked, was seated, according to
his usual habit, in Mrs. Ridler’s
garden, for the purpose of studying in quiet-
ness, his thoughts naturally turned, when the
failing light forced him to cease using his books,
to a subject which most deeply concerned him.
He asked himself for the hundredth time what
had become of his brother for the last fifteen
days that he had not seen him. He remem-
bered with grief some of the last words of his
mother: ‘Be then united during this life as
you have been united in my love and affection.’

Even in this sorrow he felt one consolation
remained to him,—he had the self-satisfaction
that he had neglected nothing in order to com-