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In her sleep she dreamed that her father prayed She awoke and found it

true "Co his

thick gray locks she laid her thin white hand and prayed

It was a beautiful sight, anddisciple, apparently so near the portals of heaven, sought to lead

her weeping father to the sa, and

o'er his darkened

Before thedawned he had resolved that if there still was hope for

hi days he prayed in

secret, not that Fanny ht be reconciled to

God His prayer at length was answered, and Uncle Joshua was a changed

, in the expression of his face and in the

words he uttered For his Sunshine he still wept, but with a chastened

grief, for now he knew that if she died he would see her in heaven

Where noas Dr Lacey? Knew he not of the threatened danger? At his

father's bedside, where for many days his place had been, he had received

fro Fanny's illness, which,