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"I like her not," said Lysbet "With randson, with my affairs, why should she meddle? Pray, nohat took thee, Joris, to her house? It is full of idolatries and graven ies Doctor Kunz once wrote to her a letter about theht to remember the Second Commandment And she wrote to him a letter, and told hier and shaelica Jacobus is rich, and she is generous to the church, and to the poor; and Doctor Kunz said to the elders, 'Let her alone, for there is a savour of righteousness in her;' and when she heard of that, she was pleased with the Doctor, and sent him one hundred dollars for the Indian Mission But, Joris, she is no good to thee I hear ht lies, all of the, "I must ride onward My mother will not sleep until she sees ht thou art in the clouds The land and the water will be alike to thee Rest until the ht or by day"

"Yet, even so, mind what I tell thee--if thou ride in the dark, be not wiser than thy beast"

Then they walked with him to the door, and watched hi over the reat melancholy fell over them, and they could not resume the conversation Joris re-lit his pipe, and Lysbet went softly and thoughtfully about her household duties It was one of those hours in which Life distills for us her vague melancholy wine; and Joris and Lysbet drank deeply of it

The moon was in its third day, and the silent crescent has no calmer and sweeter time; yet Joris it inclined to a sad presentiment "In my heart there is a fear, Lysbet," he said softly "I think our boy has gone a road he will dearly rue I foresee disputing, and wounded hearts, and livesof the kind," answered Lysbet cheerfully "Our little Joris is so happy to-night, ilt thou think evil for hi evil Out of foolishness or perchance such a great love has not come No, indeed! That it coood fortune"