Roger Berkeley was a young
American art student in Paris, called home by the mortal sickness of
his mother, and detained at home by the spendthriftness of his father
and the embarrassment that had overtaken the family affairs through
the latter cause. A concealed mortgage on the old homestead, the
mysterious disappearance of a package of bonds intended for Roger's
student use, and the paralytic incapacity of the father to give the
information which his conscience prompted him to give, have a share in
the development of the story. Roger is obliged for the time to abandon
his art work, and takes a situation in a mill; and this trying
diversion from his purpose is his "probation." How he profits by this
loss is shown in the result. The mill-life gives Mrs. Campbell
opportunity to express herself characteristically in behalf of
down-trodden "labor." The whole story is simple, natural, sweet, and
tender; and the figures of Connie, poor little cripple, and Miss
Medora Flint, angular and snappish domestic, lend picturesqueness to
its group of characters.--_Literary World_.
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