, and very long;
but of course he knows best, and he loves her."

"Yes, I'm sure he does," assented Max: "so he won't give her any more
punishment than he thinks she needs. It'll be a fine thing for her, and
all the rest of us too, if this hard lesson teaches her never to get
into a passion again."

Capt. Raymond had intended going to Lulu early in the day; but anxiety
about the babe, and sympathy with Violet, kept him with them till late
in the afternoon.

When at last he did go to his prisoner, he found her feverish with
anxiety and fear for the consequences of her mad act of the day before.

She had been longing for his coming, moving restlessly about the room,
feeling that she could not endure the suspense another moment; had at
length thrown herself into a chair beside the window, and, as was her
wont in times of over-wrought feeling, buried her face on her folded
arms, laid on the window-sill.

She started up wildly at the sound of his step and the opening of the
door.

"Papa," she cried breathlessly, "O papa! what--what have you come to
tell me? Is--is the baby"--

"She is living, but far from out of danger," he said, regarding her with
a very grave, stern expression; but it softened as he marked the anguish
in her face.

He sat down, and drew her to his knee, putting his arm about her waist,
and with the other hand clasping one of hers.

He was startled to feel how hot and dry it was.

"My child!" he exclaimed, "you are not well."

She dropped her head on his shoulder, and burst into a passion of tears
and sobs. "Papa, papa! what shall I do if baby dies? Oh! I would do or
bear any thing in the world to make her well."

"I don't doubt it, daughter," he said; "but a bitter lesson we all have
to learn is, that we cannot undo the evil deeds we have done. Oh! let
this dreadful occurrence be a warning to you to keep a tight rein upon
your quick temper."

"Oh! I do mean to, indeed I do," she sobbed; "but that won't cure the
dear baby's hurt. Papa, all day long I have been asking God to forgive
me. Do you think he will?"

"I am sure that he has already done so, if you have asked with your
heart, and for Jesus' sake. But we will ask him again for that, and to
give you strength to fight against your evil nature as you never have
fought, and to conquer."

"And to make the baby well, papa," she added sobbingly, as he knelt with
her.

"Yes," he said.

When they had risen from their knees, he bade he