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some power to free me from this slavery!" The laugh had ceased and the boys stood gazing on him with awe. A young lady and gentleman had joined the company just as Tom began this terrible arraignment of his master, and as he ceased, the young lady stepped up to him and earnestly said: "You have one friend and there is one power that can break your chains and set you free." Tom gazed at her a moment and then said: "Who is my friend?" "The King is your friend," she answered. "And pray, who are you?" said Tom. "One of the King's Daughters," was the reply "and 'In His Name' I tell you He has power to set you free." "Free, free did you say? But, you mock me. A girl with as white a hand and as fair a face as yours, delivered me to my master." "Then, in the name of the King whose daughter am I, even Jesus Christ the Lord, let the hand of another girl lead you to Him who came to break the chains of the captive and set the prisoner free." Tom looked at the earnest face of the pleading girl, hesitated awhile, as his lip quivered and the big tears filled his eyes, and then suddenly lifting the bottle high above his head, he dashed it down on the pavement, and as it broke into a thousand pieces, he said: "I'll trust you, I'll trust you, lead me to the King!" And lead him she did, as always a King's Daughter will lead one who sorely needs help. His chains were broken, and at twenty-nine years of age Tom began life over again. He is not the man he might have been, but no one doubts his loyalty to the King. His place in the prayer circle is never vacant, and you can always find, him in the ranks of those whose sworn purpose it is to slay Tom's old master, King Alcohol! STEVEN LAWRENCE, AMERICAN. BY BARBARA YECHTON. Stevie's papa usually wrote his name in the hotel registers as "Edward H. Lawrence, New York City, U. S. A.," but Stevie always entered his--and he wouldn't have missed doing it for anything--as "Steven Lawrence, American." When Kate and Eva teased him about it, he would say: "Why, anybody could come from New York--an Englishman or a German or a Frenchman--without being born there, don't you see? but I'm a real out-and-out American, born there, and a citizen and everything, and I just want all these foreigners to know it, 'cause I think America's the greatest country in the world." Then the little boy would straighten his slender figure and toss back his curly hair with a grea
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