Teddy, for the first time in his description, dared to raise his eyes, but dropped them again. He could not meet the anguish in those other eyes so earnestly fixed upon him. "She was the adopted child of the people I visited in Iowa," faltered he. "Theodore!" said Mrs. Legrange again; and then, in a breathless fluttering voice,-- "Do not trifle with me; do not try to prepare my mind; and, oh! For God's sake, if it is a false hope, say so this instant! Is she found?" "I think it may be so, dear Mrs. Legrange!" "No, but it is so! you know it! I see it in your eyes, I hear it in your voice! You cannot hide it, you cannot deceive me! O my God! my God!-to thee the first praise, the first thanks!" She fell upon her knees, her face upraised to heaven; and never mortal artist drew such a picture of ecstatic praise. And though in after-years Theodore Ginniss wandered through the galleries where the world conserves her rarest gems of art, never did he find Madonna or Magdalen or saint to compare with the one picture his memory treasured as the perfection of earthly loveliness, made radiant with the purest heavenly bliss. "Now come!" exclaimed the mother, springing to her feet, and rapidly leading the way along the narrow path. "You shall tell me all as we go." And the young man found it hard work to keep pace with the delicate woman, as she flew rather than walked towards her child. "If you will wait here in your own room, I will bring her to you," said Teddy, as he and Mrs. Legrange approached the hotel again. "Bring her! Where is she now? asked the mother, looking at him in dismay. "I left them at the other hotel, thinking, if I brought her directly here, we might meet you before you were told," explained Teddy. "Who is with her?" "Dora Darling, the young lady who adopted her,--the one I told you of as living in Iowa." "Yes, yes; and she has come all the way to bring my child to me! No, I cannot wait: I will come with you." So Mr. Burroughs, still sitting upon the piazza, saw his cousin hastening by, and came to join her. "Yes, come, Tom! come to-oh, to see Sunshine again!" and Mrs. Legrange turned her flushed face away, to hide the hysterical agitation she could not quite suppress. "Take my arm, Fanny; and do not walk so fast. You will hurt yourself," said Mr. Burroughs kindly. "No, no: nothing can hurt me now. I must go fast: if I had wings, I should fly!" "Here is the house. Will you wait in the parlor till I bring her down?" asked Teddy, leading the way up the steps of the principal hotel at Yellow Springs. "No: take me to the room where they are waiting. I want to see her without preparation," said Mrs. Legrange. So the whole party followed Teddy up the stairs to a door, where he paused and knocked. A low voice said,--