going to die. Last night, while sleeping, an angel told me in my
dream, that I would sleep with God to-night."

"That was only a dream, darling," Mrs. Wentworth replied, "you will
get well and live a long time."

As she spoke the old negro returned, accompanied by a physician. He
was one of these old fashioned gentlemen, who never concern themselves
with another's business, and therefore, he did not enquire the cause
of Mrs. Wentworth, and her family being in so poor a dwelling. His
business was to attend the sick, for which he expected to be paid; not
that he was hard-hearted, for, to the contrary, he was a very
charitable and generous man, but he expected that all persons who
required his advice, should have the means of paying for the same, or
go to the public hospital, where they could be attended to free of
charge. His notions were on a par with those of mankind in general, so
we cannot complain of him.

Approaching Ella, he took her hand and felt the pulse which was then
feebly beating. A significant shake of the head, told Mrs. Wentworth
that there was no hope for her child's recovery.

"Doctor," she asked, "will my daughter recover?"

"Madam," he replied, "your child is very, very ill, in fact, I fear
she has not many hours to live."

"It cannot be," she said. "Do not tell me there is no hope for my
child."

"I cannot deceive you, madam," he replied, "the child has been
neglected too long for science to triumph over her disease. When did
you first call in a medical practitioner?" he added.

"Not until you were sent for," she answered.

"Then you are much to blame, madam," he observed bluntly. "Had you
sent for a physician three weeks ago, the life of your child would
have been saved, but your criminal neglect to do so, has sacrificed
her life."

Mrs. Wentworth did not reply to his candid remarks. She did not tell
him that for weeks past her children and herself had scarcely been
able to find bread to eat, much less to pay a doctor's bill. She did
not tell him that she was friendless and unknown; that her husband had
been taken prisoner while struggling for his country's rights; that
Mr. Elder had turned herself and her children from a shelter, because
she had no money to pay him for the rent of the room; nor did she tell
him that the fee he had received, was obtained by theft--was the fruit
of a transgression of God's commandments.

She forgot all these. The reproach of the physician had fallen lik