Bert from time to time had good news of his old friend, Mr. Corney, or, as he now signed his letters, "Cornelius Theophilus Grant." His hopes for his sister were fulfilled, and she too was climbing the ladder and trampling under foot the sins of the past, strengthened by the Mighty Friend, whose hand she grasped as she toiled upward.
Bert could never forget the experiences of his childhood, nor lose his vivid consciousness of the evil that ruins human lives. His strongest desire as he grew up was to fight that evil—the evil within as well as that without—trusting for the victory to Him, whose is the "kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever."
THE END.
Butler & Tanner, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome, and London.