midnight
We have gone too fast , and now prove that Lena is not so strong and can not bear so much as we thought . I must at once send word to Maggie and Bessie . '' When Mrs. Rush came up a couple of hours later to inquire about her little niece , she found her still in that heavy sleep ; and with directions to Hannah to call her if needful , left her , with the hope that she would rest undisturbed till morning . When Lena woke from that dull sleep some time after midnight , all the house was still ; the only sound she heard was the regular breathing of Hannah , who slept on a cot on the other side of the room , that she might be near in case Lena needed anything in the night . She roused to a bewildered half-consciousness of something unusual ; what was it , good or ill ? What had happened before she went to sleep ? Then came the recollection of those delightful letters from papa and Russell , confiding to her disposal those precious slips of paper which represented so much ; oh !