TWILIGHT LAND

Yes, he saw what a fool he had made of himself, when
he learned that it was an angel with whom~he had been
_ travelling the five days gone.

But, then, we are all of us like the servant for the
matter of that; I, too, have travelled with an angel many
a day, I dare say, and never knew it.

-That night the servant lodged with the widow and her
son, and the next day he started back home again upon
the way he had travelled before. By evening he had
reached the place where the house of the poor couple
stood—the house that he had seen the angel set fire to.
There he beheld masons and carpenters hard at work
hacking and hewing, and building a fine new house. And
there he saw the poor man himself standing by giving
them orders. ‘ How is this,” said the travelling servant ;
“T thought that your house was burned down?”

“So it was, and that is how I came to be rich now,”
said the one-time poor man. ‘I and my wife had lived
in our old house for many a long day, and never knew
that a great treasure of silver and gold was hidden
beneath it, until a few days ago there came an angel and
burned it down over our heads, and in the morning we
found the treasure. So now we are rich for as long as
we may live.”

The next morning the poor servant jogged along on his
homeward way more sad and downcast than ever, and by
evening he had come to the robbers’ den in the thick
woods, and there the old woman. came running to the
door to meet him. ‘‘Comein!” cried she; “come in and
welcome! The robbers are all dead and gone now, and
I use the treasure that they left behind to entertain poor
travellers like yourself. The other day there came an

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