"Me and Maurice, we asked Mammie Moseley for a night's lodging,"
said Cecile. "Will it be many nights before you hear from our cousin
in France? Because me and Maurice, we have very little money, please,
sir."

"I will see to the money part," said Mr. Danvers.

"And please, sir," asked Cecile, as he rose to leave, "is Jography a
thing or a person?"

"Geography!" said the clergyman, laughing. "You shall come to school
to-morrow morning, my little maid, and learn something of geography."




CHAPTER IX.

"A LETTER."


Mr. Danvers was as good as his word and wrote by the next post to
the French cousin. He wrote a pathetic and powerful appeal to this
man, describing the destitute children in terms that might well move
his heart. But whether it so happened that the French relation had no
heart to be moved, whether he was weary of an uncongenial subject, or
was ill, and so unable to reply--whatever the reason, good Mr.
Danvers never got any answer to his letter.