es, and learn to
say "Uncle." Such a pleasant name! I always longed for an uncle.'

Miss Gwynne returned to the drawing-room, and told Rowland that Mr Jones
had been quite upset by the Welsh hymn that Minette had repeated, having
known it under peculiar circumstances when he was young. She apologised
for his non-appearance, and Rowland, seeing that something unusual had
occurred, took his departure. She promised Minette a visit to the
school, and prevailed on the little girl to allow one of the servants to
put her to bed, instead of Gladys. Minette begged Miss Gwynne to let her
say her 'English prayers' to her first, which she, of course, did.

Then Freda did her best to amuse Netta until Mrs Jones appeared, and
said Gladys was quite ready to assist Netta, if she liked to retire for
the night.

When Netta was in bed, Gladys joined her friends, and they discussed,
more calmly than before, their newly-found relationship.

Gladys brought with her her Bible, in which her mother had written her
name, and Mr Jones recognised his sister's hand writing. She had also a
lock of her mother's hair, and her wedding-ring, and one or two other
trifles, that drew fresh tears from a brother's eyes.

Gladys said that she should like, for her own satisfaction, that a
certificate of her mother's marriage, and of her birth, should be
obtained. Her mother was married, she believed, during the short time
she was in Ireland; and she was born, she knew, in the parish where her
father's parents lived, to whose care her father had confided her
mother. Two children had been born, and died before her birth, during
the period that her parents were abroad.

It may be as well to say here, that the certificates were duly procured,
through the clergyman of the parish, to whom Mr Jones wrote a statement
of the case. Also that letters, written for the gratification of Gladys,
to the Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy of her parent's last
neighbourhood were duly answered, and confirmed all that Gladys had said
of them and of herself from first to last. This, of course, took some
time to effect; but I have so far anticipated the event, to avoid
fanning to it again.

Gladys now recapitulated, more minutely, the circumstances of her early
history, a sketch of which she gave Miss Gwynne and Mrs Prothero when
she was recovering from her fever.

There were a few points that she did not mention at that time, which, we
will insert for the benefit of the