She did not start as he expected, or show any symptoms of surprise. Presently he added, "She will be here by the ten up train, and I shall go to meet her. So you see you have not guessed right." With a merry laugh Helen tore open the envelope and held it out before him. To his astonishment he read, "Miss Constance DeWolf will visit me to-morrow accompanied by Mr. Francis Joseph Edmond." "Why, Sis, I hope you haven't been breaking open my letters. So you knew it all the time. Oh, how deceitful women are!" He laughed as he kissed her affectionately. "You must explain," he urged, "how you found me out. But have you no congratulations to offer?" "Not one, till I have seen her and proved her to be worthy of my brother. If she is so, I don't think she will have any reason to complain of my coldness. Wait a minute; and I will explain how I ascertained the name of my relative elect." She darted into the house and soon returned with her portfolio. Taking from this a slip of blotting-paper, she laughingly held up before him the impression made by the ink, which, when held before a mirror, easily revealed the name she had placed in the envelope. "I soon ascertained from your absorbed, absent manner that you had a secret: and as you suddenly appeared in the character of a daily correspondent, I put the two things together, and guessed you had a lady-love. Haven't I waited patiently for you to tell me?" [Illustration] CHAPTER XI. THE GUARDIAN AND HIS WARD. TO go back a few weeks in our narrative. Mr. McKinstry succeeded, by what means he never explained, in obtaining from Monson P. Tracy the amount of Sarah Barrows' bill, with interest from the time it was due. This, with the sum already subscribed, made a little more than the three hundred dollars needed for a year's expenses at an academy near by. The poor orphan, crushed with the weight of her grief, dreading to look into the future which seemed so dark and cold, could only falter out her prayers and try to calm her bleeding heart by repeating to herself the promises of God to the fatherless ones. When Helen Edmond, with a face like a sunbeam, burst into her darkened room with a paper in one hand and a roll of bills in the other, and announced to the desolate girl the success of her plan, and the necessity of immediate exertion in order to reach the school at the commencement of the term, Sarah pressed her hands to her head, bewildered with her good fortune. At last, when her kind friend had related in detail the manner in which the happy result had been brought about; she said: "I do not deserve such generous kindness. I have been praying God to open a way for me to support myself honestly, but I was faithless and unresigned." "But you will never be so again, Sarah. I am so glad for you. It is necessary to go at once; and you must write me how you succeed in your studies."