"I heard a gentleman at the door of the American House, who knew

the game, tell another that it was a counterfeit;" and she
proceeded to give all the particulars of the two tricks she had

seen Ann play off.
"I shall have to take you to the lock-up, my little joker," said

the policeman.
"O, dear me!" cried Ann, and this time she was in earnest.

"Please don't do that!" said Katy, who had not foreseen this
consequence of the game.

"I must; it is downright swindling."
"Please don't; she has a father and mother and I dare say they

will feel very bad about it. I promise you she shall never do it
again," pleaded Katy.

"I must do my duty. This candy trick has been played a good many
times, and has become a nuisance. I must lock her up."

"Save me, Katy, save me!" begged Ann terrified at the thought of
being put in a prison or some dreadful place.

"Why do you wish to save her?" interposed the gentleman.
"Because her mother will feel so bad; and she will lay it all to

me."
Katy told him all about herself and about Ann, and he was so much

interested in her that he joined in pleading for Ann's release.
The officer was firm for a long time, but when the gentleman

declared that he should not appear against her, he decided to let
her go, to Katy's great delight, as well as to Ann's.

Humbled by the peril from which she had just escaped, Ann
promised never to be guilty of playing another trick upon

travelers; but Katy was firm in her purpose not to supply her
with any more candy. She did not dare to resent Katy's

interference, for the terrors of the lock-up were still in her
mind, and she did not know but that Katy might have her arrested

and punished for what she had done, if she attempted to retaliate
upon her.

Katy was shocked at the wickedness of her companion; and, as they
walked home together she tried to make her see the enormity of

her offense, and give her some better views of her duty to her
fellow-beings. Ann heard her in silence and with humility, and

the little moralist hoped the event would result in good to her.
CHAPTER XVII.

THE SUN SETS, AND THE NIGHT COMES ON.
Having recorded the steps by which Katy had carried forward her

now flourishing trade, from the dawn of the idea up to the height
of its prosperity, we may pass over a year with only a brief note

of its principal incidents.
My young readers may have supposed that Katy and her mother had

gathered a great deal of money in the candy trade. It was not so,
for as the business increased, and Katy's labors as a saleswoman

were withdrawn, the expenses increased, and the profits were
proportionally less. And then, neither Mrs. Redburn nor her

daughter had a faculty for saving up much money; so that, though
they made considerable, their prosperity permitted new demands

to be made upon the purse. They hired two more rooms; they
replaced the clothing and furniture which had been sacrificed

under the pressure of actual want, and they lived better than
they had lived before; and Mrs. Redburn had availed herself of

the services of a distinguishedphysician, whose attendance had
cost a large sum. It is true they lived very well, much better

than people in their circumstances ought to have lived.
Therefore, notwithstanding their prosperity, they had saved but a

small sum from the proceeds of the year's business. They were not
rich; they were simply in comfortable circumstances, which,

considering their situation when Katy commenced business, was
quite enough to render them very thankful to the Giver of all

good for the rich blessings He had bestowed upon them.
These were not all temporal blessings; if they had been, their

success would only have been partial and temporary, their
prosperity only an outwardseeming, which, in the truest and

highest sense, can hardly be called prosperity; no more than if a
man should gain a thousand dollars worth of land, and lose a

thousand dollars worth of stocks or merchandise. Both Katy and
her mother, while they were gathering the treasures of this

world, were also "laying up treasures in heaven, where neither
moth nor rust doth corrupt." Want had taught them its hard

lessons, and they had come out of the fiery furnace of affliction
the wiser and the better for the severeordeal. The mother's

foolish pride had been rebuked, the daughter's true pride had
been encouraged. They had learned that faith and patience are

real supports in the hour of trial. The perilous life in the
streets which Katy had led for a time, exposed her to a thousand

temptations; and she and her mother thanked God that they had
made her stronger and truer, as temptation resisted always makes

the soul. That year of experience had given Katy a character; it
expanded her views of life, and placed her in a situation where

she was early called upon to decide between the right and the
wrong; when she was required to select her path for life. She had

chosen the good way, as Ann Grippen had chosen the evil way.
I do not mean to say her character was formed, or that having

chosen to be good, she could not afterwards be evil. But the
great experiences of life which generally come in more mature

years, had been forced upon her while still a child; and nobly
and truly had she taken up and borne the burden imposed upon her.

As a child she had done the duties of the full-grown woman, and
she had done them well. She had been faithful to herself.

Providence kindly ordains that the child shall serve a long
apprenticeship before it is called upon to think and act for

itself. Katy had anticipated the period of maturity, and with the
untried soul of a child, had been compelled to grapple with its

duties and its temptations. As her opportunities to be good and
do good were increased, so was her liability to do wrong. She had

her faults, great, grave faults, but she was truly endeavoring to
overcome them.

Tommy had returned from his voyage to Liverpool, and joyous was
the meeting between Katy and her sailor friend. It took him all

the evenings for a week to tell the story of his voyage, to which
Mrs. Redburn and her daughter listened with much satisfaction. He

remained at home two months, and then departed on a voyage to the
East Indies.

Master Simon Sneed, after Katy's attempt to serve him, did not
tell her many more large stories about himself, for she

understood him now, and knew that he was not half so great a man
as he pretended to be. In the spring he obtained a situation in a

small retail store where there was not a very wide field for the
exercise of his splendid abilities. He had been idle all winter,

and when he lamented his misfortunes to Katy, she always asked
why he did not sell candy. Once she suggested that he should

learn a trade, to which Master Simon always replied, that he was
born to be a gentleman, and would never voluntarily demean

himself by pursuing a degrading occupation. He was above being a
mechanic, and he would never soil his hands with dirty work. Katy

began to think he was really a fool. She could scarcely think him
"poor and proud"; he was only poor and foolish.

At the close of Katy's first year in trade, a great misfortune
befell her in the loss of Mrs. Colvin, her able assistant in the

manufacturing department of the business. A worthy man, who owned
a little farm in the country, tempted her with an offer of