ll day she worked listlessly; and as the shadows from
the mountain crept towards the cottage, she would stand in the doorway,
and call, "Lucy, Lucy." For years the echoes daily sent back that sunset
cry.

A few months after the loss of little Lucy, a hunter returned from the
region of Lake George. On hearing the story, he reported that a white
child had been seen in that neighborhood with a tribe of Indians; and
the rumor reached the ears of Mr. Keyes. The autumn leaves had put on
their dying robes of yellow and crimson and gold when, leaving the rest
of his harvest to be gathered by his sons, he went to Lake George. After
great risks, and many a hair-breadth escape, he found a captive maiden;
but she was many years older than Lucy, and she knew only the life of
the Indians. He reached his home late in the winter. In the spring a
friendly Indian reported that a white girl was held captive by a tribe
on the St. Lawrence; and again Mr. Keyes started in pursuit. Six months
or more he spent in the search; but when he found the tribe and their
captive, it was a black-eyed little girl that he saw; but Lucy's eyes
were blue, and he travelled home. With each new rumor of a captive child
among the Indian tribes in Maine or Connecticut, in New York or Canada,
Mr. Keyes would start again on one of those sad pilgrimages; and he
always came back disappointed and alone. Mr. Littlejohn had now left his
farm, and it was occupied by strangers.

Meantime, the boys had grown to be men. They no longer had any sympathy
with the fruitless search. They made homes for themselves in the now
farther remote frontier. And the girls had grown to womanhood and
married. Old, and poor, and alone,--for his wife had died, and long ago
ceased her plaintive evening call for her long-lost little Lucy,--Mr.
Keyes petitioned the "Great and General Court" for the grant of a tract
of public land which lay near his home. In this petition, now to be
found in the archives of the State, he sets forth that he is poor in
consequence of the prolonged search for his daughter, and too feeble to
maintain himself.

(_Concluded in next number._)

EDITOR'S TABLE.

Considerable has been heard lately of the American Institute of Civics,
an organization whose plans for promoting good citizenship are broader
and more comprehensive than have ever before been systematically
attempted in this country. That the Institute is obtaining the
encouragement and suppo