eached Basel we went to a big hotel. I never saw anything like it
before. I could scarcely eat my dinner for joy that I was going to
see Fani again. Directly after dinner Aunt Clarissa told Mrs.
Stanhope that we wanted to go to see my brother, and Mrs. Stanhope
said she would go with us, as she did not want to stay alone.

We went across a long bridge, over a river, and quite a distance
further. At last we came to some small houses, and we began to
inquire for the painter Schulz. There we were right before his
house. Mrs. Stanhope opened the door and went right into the
work-shop, and we followed her. Fani sprang up with a great cry of
joy, and threw his arms round Mrs. Stanhope, and his eyes were full
of tears, for he was terribly homesick, and had never seen any one
from home since he went away. Then he caught sight of me, and he
was gladder still; and he wasn't the least shy with Mrs.
Stanhope--you know he never is--but he put his arms round her
again, and exclaimed:--

"Oh, you don't know how glad I am to see some one from home!"

You can't imagine how kind she was to him. At last she told Fani to
call his master, and when the man came she went out into another
room to talk with him. After a while she came back, and then, what
do you think? She asked Fani if he would not like to go and live
with me at her house! I can't begin to tell you how I felt. At
first I could scarcely breathe for joy, and then I began to think I
must have made a mistake; it couldn't be true. But Fani cried out
with delight, and he seized Mrs. Stanhope's hand and looked at her
so beseechingly, and he promised to work as hard as he could, and
do everything to please her if he might only go. "You shall," she
said; and then she told him when to meet us at the railroad next
day. What a promise for Fani and me!

As we were going back to the hotel, Mrs. Stanhope said to Aunt
Clarissa, "Did you notice the resemblance? Doesn't he look at you
out of his big brown eyes just as my Philo did?" Aunt Clarissa saw
the likeness too, and said that was the reason that she took a
fancy to Fani the moment she saw him. You see, Philo was Nora's
little brother. In the evening, Mrs. Stanhope spoke several times
about the likeness, and it was the first time that she had talked
with us at