desire--some disappointed applicant for the place at Mr. C----'s, no
doubt. It is hardly to be supposed that two more French teachers are
wanted in the city."

"Let us try, mother," returned Lucy to this.

"If you feel disposed to do it, child, I have no objection," said
Mrs. Ellison; "but I shall count nothing on it."

"It is the only method that now presents itself, and I think it will
be right at least to make the trial. It can do no harm."

The more Lucy thought about an advertisement, the more hopeful did
she feel about the result. During the day she prepared one and sent
it down to a newspaper office. Her messenger had not been long gone
before the servant came up to the room where she sat with her
mother, and said that a gentleman was in the parlour and wished to
see them. He had sent up his card.

"Mr. Burgess!" ejaculated Lucy, on taking the card from the
servant's hand.

"I do not wish to see him," said Mrs. Ellison, as soon as the
servant had withdrawn. "You will have to go down alone, Lucy."

Lucy descended to the parlour with reluctant steps, for she had
little desire to see the man whose thoughtlessness and neglect had
so cruelly wronged them. The moment she entered the parlour, Mr.
Burgess stepped forward to meet her with a cheerful expression of
countenance.