"THE postman will not be here yet, Marian, so you and Kate had better come to breakfast," said Mrs. Ingram, addressing her two children, who stood at the window, watching eagerly for the arrival of the red-coated messenger, in the hope that he would bring a letter from "Brother Bernard." And Mrs. Ingram herself looked scarcely less anxious, for Bernard was the "only son of his mother, and she was a widow." The boy had been six months absent at school, and midsummer was just at hand. As it was his first half-year from home, no wonder Marian and Kate, his two sisters—to say nothing of mamma—were counting the very hours which must pass before Bernard could arrive.…
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