"Certainly, I will be with thee," sang the voice, "I will be with
thee, I will be with thee."
CHAPTER IV.
THE WOMAN WITH THE KINDEST FACE.
Cecile went back to where she had left Maurice sitting on the church
hassock, and, taking his hand, said to him, "Come."
Her little, worn face was bright and some of the sweetness of the
music she had been listening to had got into her blue eyes.
"Come, Maurice," said Cecile. "I know now what to do. Everything
will be quite right now. I have told Jesus all about it, and Jesus
the Guide has answered me, and said He would come with us. Did you
hear that wonderful, lovely music? That was Jesus answering me. And,
Maurice, I asked Him to let us find a kind woman who will help us to
a night's lodging, and I know He will do that too."
"A kind woman?" said Maurice. "The kindest woman I ever saw is
coming up the church steps this minute."
Cecile looked in the direction in which Maurice pointed.
A woman, with a pail in one hand and a large sweeping brush in the
other, was not only coming up the steps, but had now entered the
church door. Cecile and Maurice stood back a little in the shadow.
The woman could not see them, but they could gaze earnestly at her.
She was a stout woman with a round face, rosy cheeks, and bright,
though small and sunken, brown eyes. Her eyes had, however, a light
in them, and her wide lips were framed in smiles. She must have been
a women of about fifty, but her broad forehead was without a wrinkle.
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