"Oh, Miss Rose, I've been asleep, and left you keeping watch all by
yourself! Oh, I am ashamed!"

"Not by myself, Martha. I had this," laying her hand on the open
Bible, "and I felt God nearer me than ever in my life before, I
think. He is going to help us, I know. I feel that He has given me
His word this night!"

"She has not come?" sighed Martha, glancing round the kitchen, as
though expecting to see Huldah hiding somewhere. "Oh, what a night
of misery she must have endured!"

"She has not come yet, but she is coming, and brownie is very brave,
Martha, and patient and hopeful. She has the blessed gift of making
the best of what can't be helped, and she has a wonderful faith.
Look, Martha, look at the sky, does it not already sing to us
'joy cometh with the morning'?"

Martha Perry walked to the door and looked out, and even her timid,
doubting heart could not but feel calmed and comforted.

"'God's in His heaven: All's right with the world,'" quoted Miss
Rose, softly, as they stood there together. And already help was on
its way to Huldah.



CHAPTER IX.