long, so she fetched the little table on which she had placed it, which she set beside Madame.

She then waited in the hopes of hearing more, but baby waking at that moment, and crying, she hastened to the nightnursery to him.

Hilda and Madame Rivière had received letters by the same mail,-Hilda to the effect that her parents were coming to England in about two months; Madame Rivière to receive a quarter's notice for Hilda to leave school, and in case her parents chose to remove Dora, to place her at school in England, where Hilda would finish her education, the same notice was given for her.

Madame Rivière was sorry at the thought of parting with them. She liked these children very much, especially Hilda, who had been at her school now for more than six years, where she had made many improvements; and Mademoiselle L'Herbier, when she heard what news had come with regard to these children, was also very sorry.

A steamer from the West Indies has anchored in Southampton Water. Steamers leave and arrive here very often on their route to and from the West Indies and other places, although their going and coming is unnoticed by the mass, from whom they take and to whom they bring no friends or letters.

But to those who look for their arrival they are very welcome when they come, and this steamer has brought Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery to England.

The latter was very weak when she arrived, and her husband took rooms for her at Southampton, where he decided to let her remain until he could find a suitable little home for her in or near London.

Meanwhile Mr. Montgomery was to pay the children a flying visit, and tell them that they were to come home as soon as their parents were settled.

Mrs. Montgomery was

very anxious to know at once how the children were looking, and she could not bear to think of their being long kept in suspense after they knew that their parents had arrived.

It was now quite decided that at the end of the quarter both Hilda and Dora were to leave Passy for good. A telegram was sent to Madame De Fivas asking her kindly to spare Nana, who was to stay with Mrs. Montgomery at Southampton whilst her husband paid his visit to Paris.

Madame De Fivas sent Nana off at once. She had already engaged another nurse, and was only keeping her until she was required by her former mistress. The day after Nana arrived at Southampton Mr. Montgomery started for Paris.

He paid a very short visit to his children, as he was anxious first to get back to Southampton to report about them, and then at once to go on to London to take a house.

About a month after their arrival in England, Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery were very comfortably, very happily, and very thankfully housed in a pretty little villa on the outskirts of London, near to a good day-school for Hilda and Dora, and close by a metropolitan station, from whence Mr. Montgomery could take the train into the city, where he hoped soon to find some employment.

The children were at home, and so was Jack, for although Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery had had to find good homes for all their other animals, and leave them behind, they had felt that they could not part with Jack, their children's special friend, and had brought him to England with them.

He

It was strange to watch his welcome of his friends. ran first to Dora, as though he only remembered her, and showed great joy at seeing her again; then he turned to Hilda, sniffed, looked up at her, seemed to be thinking, after which, as if some recollection dawned upon him, he jumped up at her, licked her hand, and barked loudly with delight.

Hilda was very glad to see Jack again, and this was quite

a surprise, as purposely she had not been told that he had

come.

Hilda was very sorry to say 'good-bye' to Madame Rivière, Mademoiselle L'Herbier, Dolly, many of the other girls, and Turc, when she came away from school. Clochette had just left school for good, and had promised to write to her. Mary Scott generally spent her long holidays in England, and when she next came to London she had also promised to come and see Hilda.

But regrets had little place in Hilda's heart now on the evening of her arriving home in England.

Day after day since she had heard of her mother's illness had Hilda prayed that she might soon be better, and taught her little sister to do the same, and now very thankfully she returned thanks for the answer to her prayers.

Hilda had known some sorrows. As a little girl she had known what it was to leave everybody and everything she loved, and make her home amongst strangers; she had known great unhappiness for a little girl, when her soft heart hardened, and unkindness from her school-fellows had turned love within her into hatred, and the feeling of being naughty had made her very sad; but she had been very sorry for her naughtiness, it was over and past; and if she had once known unhappiness, she certainly knew great happiness now, as did also little Dora, when once again she flung her arms round her father's and mother's necks, and kissed them.

Nana we can only feel inclined to picture to ourselves as dancing again, she must have been so very happy now!

'I should have liked to see Rebecca and Nenus once more very much,' Hilda said during the evening; 'I haven't forgotten them, and I seem to remember Plunkett a little too ; please, father, tell me something about them all.'

'Rebecca is married, Nenus is a pupil-teacher at your CedarTree School, and Plunkett is butler to a lady in St. Patrick's.