They were answered, but in a way little dreamed of by any one.
The prayers we offer for heavenly blessings often come up in our earthly soil as plants of bitter sorrow.
So it proved in this case.
[CHAPTER XXIV.]
"IN SUCH AN HOUR AS YE THINK NOT."
One morning in the latter part of spring Zeph Higgins received a shock which threw his whole soul into confusion.
His wife, on rising to go forth to her wonted morning cares, had fainted dead away and been found lying, apparently lifeless, on the bed, when her husband returned for his breakfast.