IS DAWN.

"In the pettiest character there are unfathomable depths."

"Only one Judge is just, for only one
Knoweth the hearts of men."

Sayeth the book: "There passeth no man's soul
Except by God's permission, and the speech
Writ in the scroll determining the whole,
The times of all men, and the times for each."
--KORAN, 3d CHAP.

The Lanhearnes by an old-fashioned standard were a very wealthy
family. They were also a large family, though the sons had been
scattered by their business exigencies and the eldest daughters by
marriage. Only Ada, the youngest child of the house, remained with her
father; for the mother had been dead many years, and the preservation
of the idea of home was felt by all the Lanhearne children to be in
Ada's hands. If she married and went away, who then would keep open
the dear old house and give a bright welcome to their yearly visits?

Ada, however, was not inclined to marriage. She was a grave, quiet
woman of twenty-two years of age, whose instincts were decidedly
spiritual and whose hopes and pleasures had little to do with this
world. She was interested in all church duties and in all charitable
enterprises. Mission schools and chapels filled her heart, and she
paid out of her private purse a good-hearted little missionary to find
out for her cases of deserving poverty which it was her delight to
relieve.

Roland had never before come in contact with such a woman, and at a
distance he gave her a kind of adoration. Young, beautiful, rich, and
yet keeping herself unspotted from the world or going into it only to
relieve suffering, to dry the tears of childhood, and strengthen the
failing hearts of unhappy women. Once while walking with Mr. Lanhearne
the old gentleman said: "This is Ada's church. As the door is open let
us enter and wait for prayers." So out of the rush and crush of
Broadway the old and the young man turned into the peace of the
temple. And as they entered Ada rose up from before the altar, and
with a pale, rapt face glided into the solitude of her own pew.
Neither spoke of the circumstance, but on Roland's mind it made a deep
impression. At that hour he realised how beautiful a thing is true
religion and how holy a thing is a woman pure of heart, calmly radiant
from the very presence of God.

In spite of the unhappy memories of the past, in spite of the worrying
thoughts which would intr