She fell on her knees beside her child, and while the tears
were bursting from her eyes, she poured out aloud the sorrow in her heart:
Oh God of Love, oh Father-heart,
In whom my trust is founded,
I know full well how good Thou art--
E'en when by grief I am wounded.
Oh Lord, it surely can not be
That Thou wilt let me languish
In hopeless depths of misery
And live in tears of anguish.
Toni's eyes took on a different expression. He looked at his mother. She
did not see him and went on imploring in the midst of her tears:
Oh Lord, my soul yearns for thine aid
In this dark vale of weeping;
For Thee I have waited, hoped and prayed,
Assured of thy safe keeping.
Suddenly Toni threw himself on his mother and sobbed aloud. She threw her
arms around him and her tears of sorrow turned to loud sobs of joy. The
child sobbed aloud also.
"It is won," said the doctor in great delight to the women, who, deeply
moved, were looking on at the mother and boy.
Then the doctor opened the door of the next room and beckoned Elsbeth to
go in there with Toni. He thought it would be good for both to be alone
for a while. In there after a while Toni began to talk quite naturally
with his mother and asked her:
"Are we going home, Mother, to the stone hut? Shan't I have to go up on
the mountain any more?"
And she quieted him and said she would now take him right home, and they
would stay there together.
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