The Orphans of Glen Elder

For a moment the person thus addressed stood gazing up into the darkness of the narrow staircase, and then turned wearily to the steep ascent. No wonder she was weary; for at th...

Yes: her prayer was heard and answered; but it was in God's way, not in hers. When Mrs Blair woke from her short and unrefreshing slumber, she found that the morning was far adv...

It was not without many tears that the two children bade farewell to the little, dark room that had been their home so long. True, they had suffered much in it. Many long, restl...

But all the days in Kirklands were not sunny days. The pleasant harvest time went over, and the days grew short and rainy. Not with the pleasant summer rain, coming in sudden gu...

And so the winter passed away, and the spring came again,--the sunshine and showers of April, more than renewing the delight of the children's first weeks in Kirklands. They had...

Lilias' troubles were not over yet. Even now a cloud was gathering, little, indeed, at first, and distant, but destined to overshadow her for many a weary month. Indeed, there w...

Mrs Stirling's cottage stood not far from the high-road that leads to Dunmoor, at the distance of a mile and a half from Kirklands. It was Nancy's own, and though humble and sma...

"I have stayed too late. They'll be wondering what has kept me," said Archie to himself, as he saw the firelight gleaming from the cottage-window. "I wonder where Lily can be, t...

"Bonny Glen Elder!" repeated Archie to himself many times, as, holding his cousin's hand, he walked over the fair sloping fields and through the sunny gardens. His cousin repeat...