The tears could no longer be denied. She put her head in her aunt's lap and sobbed out her heart's overflow. For an hour they sat by the open trunk, forgetting all about the packing, while her aunt talked to Maimie as no one had ever talked to her before; and often, through the long years of suffering that followed, the words of that evening came to Maimie to lighten and to comfort an hour of fear and sorrow. Mrs. Murray was of those to whom it is given to speak words that will not die with time, but will live, for that they fall from lips touched with the fire of God. Before they had finished their talk Harry came in, and then Mrs. Murray told them about their mother, of her beauty and her brightness and her goodness, but mostly of her goodness. “She was a dear, dear girl,” said their aunt, “and her goodness was of the kind that makes one think of a fresh spring morning, so bright, so sweet, and pure. And she was beautiful, too. You will be like her, Maimie,” and, after a pause, she added, softly, “And, most of all, she loved her Saviour, and that was the secret of both her beauty and her goodness.” “Auntie,” said Harry, suddenly, “don't you think you could come to us for a visit? It would do father--I mean it would be such a great thing for father, and for me, too, for us all.” Mrs. Murray thought of her home and all its ties, and then said, smiling: “I am afraid, Harry, that could hardly be. Besides, my dear boy, there is One who can always be with you, and no one can take His place.” “All the same, I wish you could come,” said Harry. “When I am here I feel like doing something with my life, but at home I only think of having fun.” “But, Harry,” said his aunt, “life is a very sacred and very precious thing, and at all costs, you must make it worthy of Him who gave it to you.” Next morning, when Harry was saying “Farewell” to his aunt, she put her arms round him, and said: “Your mother would have wished you to be a noble man, and you must not disappoint her.” “I will try, auntie,” he said, and could say no more.