"You are just in time," said old Mr. Fussell when he learned the stranger's business. "There is a ship from Hamburg just coming up the river at this moment. She has some emigrants on board, they tell me, and perhaps you may find friends among them. If you will wait a little, we will go down and see." "If you please, sir, the 'Gem' has just come up to her berth," said a porter, hearing his employer's words. "Good!" said the old man. "We will go down directly. Rather better to have peaceful merchantmen coming up the river than transports full of troops, eh?" Caspar assented heartily. He was standing on the dock, rather sadly watching the passengers as they landed, when a hand was laid on his arm, and he turned round to see a tall, handsome youth, so like his youngest brother that he started as if he had seen a ghost. "Father! Don't you know your little Philip?" "My son, my son!—But your mother, dear boy?" said Caspar, after the first agitated greetings were over. "Alive and well, dear father; but I have much to tell you." "We will talk it all over at home, my boy. For I have a home fairer than the old one at Nonnenwald. I have made it ready, and this very day I came to find means of going to bring you all over. Thank Heaven, we did not miss each other on the way!" In the course of another year, Gertrude Reinhart was fairly established in the tall white house, wondering greatly at American ways, but conforming to them quite as well as could be expected. In another house not far away, Louis Rosekranz and his young wife were settled; and Louis was learning that in order to live even in America, he must attend to his farming and leave the game to take care of itself. He had discovered that it would never do to let his aunt take such a long journey alone; and having inherited a small property from his father, he determined to use it in purchasing a farm in the New World. Gustaf went to school, helped his father in the shop, worked in the garden, and made himself useful and liked everywhere. Philip's mind had for some time been turning strongly toward the ministry, and Brother Gotthold, whom he had consulted, encouraged him in the idea, seeing in him gifts and dispositions eminently suited for the work. His father was in easy circumstances and growing richer year by year, and he was both able and willing to afford his son all the help he needed. In a year from his landing, Philip was ready to enter Princeton College, from which he graduated with credit; and not long after, he was settled as pastor in one of the towns which were springing up all over the country. He married a wife who was a true help to him—a vivacious little gray-eyed woman, who, when she wished to coax her father-in-law to come and visit her, used to address him by the title of "Mr. Hessian." Recompense Joake used to sometimes remark that if it did not seem like boasting, he should think he had done a good thing in nursing Caspar through that fever.