MILLIE'S VICTORY.








 CHAPTER X.

ILL and alone! That thought haunted Millie through
all the bright spring days, marring her happiness.
 Reginald came often to Mrs. La Serre's; the old
lady liked and admired him extremely.
 "I am afraid there is a good deal of selfishness in
my pleasure at your engagement," she said one day to
Millie; you will always be near me now."
 "Yes, auntie," Millie answered. She was sitting
by the window, turning over the leaves of her Bible.
 What are you looking for, dear ?"
 "For a text that says, when two paths lie before
you, you may choose the pleasantest. I can only find
this, Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil
the law of Christ.' "
 "Auntie, La Serre, you must let me go to Bran-
ton."
 Go if you think right, my dear; but think, can
you live the life again you lived with your aunt."
 "I must try. I have thought and thought. I
would give anything not to go, but dare I choose the
pleasant path when I feel the other is the right one ?
Auntie, I must go."
 "C My child, I will not try to keep you; only count
the cost before you go. Regret comes too late."
 Millie was still turning over the leaves of her Bible,
and she softly read aloud a verse, "Strengthened