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agitation through the crowd. The €xcitement 
was told by the eager curiosity of the people’s 
gaze, to learn the cause. Kven Mattie was 
roused from the stupor of despair into which 
she had sunk. A strange vague hope awcke in 
her breast, and scarcely could she conceive the 
marvellous reality, as she beheld enter one whom 
she could not mistake, but so pale, attenuated, 
as to seem indeed rather a spectre than a living 
being. But it was the lost one, her well-re- 
membered companion, whose sudden appearance 
created a sensation impossible to describe. His 
persecutor, horrified at the sight of what he con- 
ceived to be an apparition, swooned, and was 
taken from court. 
The result was, that the conditions of the boy’s 
indentures were declared by the jury to be for- 
feited, and the sorest sting of all to the miser— 
he was compelled to aid in the support and edu- 
cation of the boy, until he attained his majority. 
A new light thus broke on the horizon, hith- 
erto so dark and troubled for Will Smith. Dili- 
gent in improving the advantages afforded him, 
before long he enjoyed the honourable position 
of a successful young barrister, and the old 
Judge on his retirement, had the satisfaction of 
seeing his own career renewed in that of his 
adopted son, as he listened often in an ecstasy of 
admiration to his brilliant vigourous oratory 
