"I gave it to Silas, 'twas my parting present, and oh! How I've longed for a sight of a Bible since!" exclaimed Amy, whose affection for her brother had led her to make what had been to her a sacrifice indeed. "And now God sends me these precious papers! Let's gather out every piece, May, that has any of the Word printed upon it."
"Not such a little scrap as this surely," said May, picking up a small fragment that had fallen on the ground.
"Let us see what that little scrap holds," said Amy, and taking it from May she read aloud, "'an inheritance undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for'—" *
Here the paper was torn, it contained but a part of a verse. But the gaze of Amy rested on it with joy as she cried, "May, May, these few words describe what we look for, long for, the Home prepared up above!"
* 1 Peter i. 4.
"I don't know what they mean," said May; "what is that long word ''heritance?'"
"It has something to do with coming into property, I think," replied Amy. "Don't you remember what father said yesterday evening about the great inheritance in Shropshire which some one of our name had a long long time ago?"
"Oh! That meant the great house, with all the hundreds and thousands of acres about it that we hear about, but never see!" laughed May.
"But we believe—we believe that there is such place," said Amy.
"I don't care much about it, for I know I shall never have it!" cried May.