The Mountain Girl by Emma Payne Erskine Chapter 20 Page 23

‘One will come for you.’“ She hid her face in his bosom, and her words came smothered and brokenly, “All the ride home I put them away, but they would come back, his words: ‘On the mountain top, one will come for you’; but we were in such trouble — I thought it was just the thought of my father. It’s always strongest when trouble comes, like he would comfort me.”

“Don’t you have it also when happiness comes to you, as on this morning while we waited together?”

“No great happiness like this ever came before. I have been glad, like when mother said I might go to Farington to school; and when I knelt and was confirmed, I was glad then. The first gladness I can remember was when my father used to carry me in his