once! Toneli, don't
you hear me?"

Toneli remained unmoved.

Still once again the mother looked at him full of tenderness, but only met
his staring eyes. It was too much for poor Elsbeth, that the only
possession she had on earth, and the one she loved with all her heart, her
Toni, should be lost to her, and in such a sad way! She forgot everything
around her. She fell on her knees beside her child, and while the tears
were bursting from her eyes, she poured out aloud the sorrow in her heart:

Oh God of Love, oh Father-heart,
In whom my trust is founded,
I know full well how good Thou art--
E'en when by grief I am wounded.

Oh Lord, it surely can not be
That Thou wilt let me languish
In hopeless depths of misery
And live in tears of anguish.

Toni's eyes took on a different expression. He looked at his mother. She
did not see him and went on imploring in the midst of her tears:

Oh Lord, my soul yearns for thine aid
In this dark vale of weeping;
For Thee I have waited, hoped and prayed,
Assured of thy safe keeping.

Suddenly Toni threw himself on his mother and sobbed aloud. She threw her
arms around him and her tears of sorrow turned to loud sobs of joy. The
child sobbed aloud also.

"It is won," said the doctor in great delight to the women, who, deeply
moved, were looking on at the mother and boy.

Then the doctor opened the door of the next room and beckoned Elsbeth to
go in there with Toni. He thought it would be good for both to be alone
for a while. In there after a while Toni began to talk quite naturally
with his mother and asked her:

"Are we going home, Mother, to the stone hut? Shan't I have to go up on
the mountain any more?"

And she quieted him and said she would now take him right home, and they
would stay there together. Soon all Toni's thoughts came back again quite
clearly, and after a while he said:

"But I must earn something, Mother."

"Don't trouble about that now," said Elsbeth quietly; "the dear Lord will
show a way when it is time."

Then they began to talk about the goat, how pretty and fat she had grown,
and Toni gradually became quite lively.

After an hour the doctor brought them both into the living-room back to
the ladies. Toni was entirely changed, his eyes had now an earnest but
quite different expression. The lady from Geneva was indescribably
delighted. She sat down beside him at once, and he had to tell her where
he had