Ruby's Reward — page 331: what you’re looking at

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Then she leaned forward and pressed her trem- bling lips to his forehead, asking, tenderly : “Have I won my son?” “Indeed, you have, grandmother—you have cap- tured me most effectivel ,’ Walter answered, trying to speak lightly to hide his own emotion, while he re- turned her caress with real affection. “Thank Heaven!” she said, fervently. ‘I know I can never make up the past to you, but I will do what I can for your future.” And from that day it was known that Walter Richardson was the child of a son from whom Madam Howland had been separated by the war, as that henceforth he was to be regarded as her eir, They did not deem it best to go into details, and, as this explanation of their new relations appeared to be satisfactory to madaim's friends, it was not needful to repeat the sad story of the past, while the young man was at once received by them with a cordiality that was very gratifying to his new-found relative, CHAPTER XLII. RUBY’S DISAPPEARANCE DISCOVERED. Madam Howland insisted that Walter should “come home" at onee—there must be no more living in an ordinary boarding-house—and, of course, the change could not be otherwise than a pleasant one tor him, These words, ‘come home,” spoken in his grand:- mother’s tremulously tender tones, were alnost the sweetest that had greeted his ears since the going out of his fair young mother’s life had left him home- less and an orphan, while the fond woman spared no pains to make life attractive and delightful to him. She was recovering but slowly from her injuries, and she informed Walter that he would Day Salk be hands for her until she was able to use he? 6wieo™