Mr. Langley turned eagerly to the girl.
“Do you mean it, Anna?” he asked with such a look in his eyes that Anna could not answer. But she nodded, smiling through tears.
He took the baby into his arms and caressed it.
“I can’t—we can’t begin to tell Anna how happy we shall be nor how grateful we are to her, can we Ella?” he said warmly.
“We’ll certainly jump at the chance,” Mrs. Langley rejoined, borrowing Anna’s phraseology with such comical effect that they all laughed merrily. And little Joe smiled confidently into Anna’s eyes.
THE END.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.
Archaic or variant spelling has been retained.