Marion bent over and pressed her lips to the fair forehead of the young mother, and Eugene made them laugh by imitating her example.
"She's nicer than she was," he exclaimed, patting her cheek. "She doesn't tell lies any more. She tells me when the medicine is going to taste badly,—but I take it all the same."
After talking for a few minutes with Mrs. Douglass, Marion hurried away, saying to herself,—
"What a glorious change! What a purifier and refiner Christianity is! How Mr. Angus will rejoice that Juliette has accepted her Saviour!"
Before I close this chapter I must tell the reader that Marion showed Mr. Alford's card to Mr. Lambert the very day Mrs. Douglass had given it to her, only asking whether he knew the man. He did not, but soon found a man of his description was a frequenter of gambling-saloons and other disreputable places of resort, that the name Alford was one of several aliases, and that he was a man wholly unfit to be trusted.
To neither Mrs. Douglass nor her daughter did she repeat this information, the change in Juliette rendering it unnecessary.
[CHAPTER V.]
HOME IN THE STABLE LOFT.
"THIS is only a stable, Miss Marion."
"The place must be here, Hepsey: the number three hundred and sixty is plainly marked."