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him? Can you tell me anything in regard to
his habits ?”’

“Very little,” | said hesitatingly. | knew
that the man before me was a model of all virtues,
and had very little patience with youthful follies.
He spoke a few words fea disparaging way,
and | knew that Robertson’s careless habits were
drawing suspicion upon him, and endangering the
remarkably good position he held.  “T'he thought
flashed into my mind, that perhaps it would be
as well for little Baisy to die. “The shock of
having been the indirect. means of her death —
would sober the lad her little lonely heart had
clung to, and make a man of him for life. God
was going to take her from us. | pitied Robert.
son from the bottomi of my heart. e was

going about the house with a set face which as-