MILLIE'S VICTORY.

 Betty was sent for the doctor, and at last the
 orphaned girl opened her eyes, to look wildly round,
 and call "C Mamma, mamma !"
 Mrs. Templeton soothed her tenderly, but nothing
 could hush that low sobbing cry, Mamma, mamma."
 She did not understand the truth. It was weeks
 before she knew her mother was dead, but day and
 night, through all her illness, she would call for
 Mamma."
 Miss Conway was a careful nurse, and tried to be
 kind and gentle, bat Millie always shrank from her,
 and would take her medicine from no other hand than
 Mrs. Templeton's. The Rector's wife spent most of
 her time at Briony Cottage. She was very much
 attached to Millie, and her new sorrow was an addi-
 tional claim on her love.
 It was Mrs. Templeton who told Millie again of
her mother's death, when she was recovered sufficiently
to know the truth.
 It was told so gently, so tenderly. Millie's first
thought was of the beautiful home, where her mother
and father were waiting together for her.
 She never mentioned her mother-her sorrow was
too deep for words-never but once, in that first year
of her orphanage. The first few weeks after her
recovery she spent at the Rectory, and one evening she
wandered into the garden alone.
 Reginald, coming home from the village, joined
her there.
 "All alone, Millie. Don't look so sad, dear."
 "cc I can't help it," she answered. Oh, Reginald,
I wish I was in heaven; I wish I was dead."
 Poor dear," he said, in his loving, brotherly way.
"What could we do without you, Millie? What
should I do without my confidant. I can't talk to my
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