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in a cheap frame—the only one that could
boast of being so preserved. I suppose Joe
could only afford one frame, and his sense
of the fitness of things made him choose the
Missis’s picture to be first honored.

How sad I felt looking round the room!
People may smile at my feeling so sad and
concerned about a servant, a@ common, low-
born page-boy. Ay, smile on, if you will,
but tell me, my friend, can you say, if you
were in Joe’s position at that time, with cir-
cumstantial evidence so strong against you,
poor and lowly as he was, are there four or
five, or even two or three of your friends who
would believe in you, stand up for you, and
trust in you, in spite of all, as we did for
Joe?

I had gone up to my sitting-room, after
telling Mary to light the fire in poor Joe’s
room, and let it look warm and cosey; for d
had some sort of presentiment that I should
see the poor boy again very soon — how, I
knew not, but I have all my life been subject
to spiritual influences, and have seldom been

mistaken in them.