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"I fink I could," he replied, "because, you see, her eyes are like ve brownie's all soft and queer" he smiled engagingly at Phyllis "but yours" he turned to Janet "have all kinds of funny little gold fings that make vem all shiny. But I couldn't tell you apart if you shut your eyes, I don't fink." "Oh, Donald, you're a great boy!" Phyllis laughed.
Tommy was petted and nursed in a way she had not known since Aunt Margaret had died, while Bob worked feverishly at his farm, riding over every day from Billabong, with a package of Brownie's sandwiches in his pocket, and returning at dusk, dirty and happy.
Dispirited and hopeless a terrible condition for a child she wondered how Alec Forbes could be so merry. But he had had his evil things, and they were over; while hers were all about her still. She had but one comfort left that no one would prevent her from creeping up to her own desolate garret, which was now the dreary substitute for Brownie's stall.
Instantly I was broad awake, and waited in alarmed expectancy. Ha! there it was again the low skreigh o' pain I had heard before. I was 'gliffed' indeed, horribly afeared, yet I must act, so a-tiptoe I stole out, and like a cat stealthily approached 'Brownie's' door.
At last the tailor said, "I am going to do something for that brownie. He has done so much for us all." So he cut and stitched the neatest little coat you ever saw; for he said: "I have always heard that a brownie's clothes are ragged, so our brownie will need this, I know."
The boys were overjoyed as they mounted and galloped away down the long avenue for a ride; the girls at first being satisfied with a trot around the grounds on "Brownie's" broad back. After the delightful day had gone at last, tired but happy they gathered around Aunt Janice as she sat knitting. "You must have a fortune growing around the old place on all of those fine forest trees!"
"Ten minutes more," she said, with an air of satisfaction. "And, as Brownie would say, 'he's rose lovely. Have some tea, Cecil?" Cecil assented, and watched the small figure in the voluminous white apron as she flitted about the kitchen. "I like having tea here," Norah confided to him. "Then I use Brownie's teapot, and don't you always think tea tastes miles better out of a brown pot?
The thought of Jacob wrestling through the night sustained me, and now at last 'Brownie's' clutch upon my throat relaxed. I shook my head free. I breathed again in the cold air I felt all the energy ebb from the body beneath me. I had conquered at last. 'Brownie' lay quietly in the gutter, breathing gently as a babe. I rose to my feet and peered across the chasm.
"Get ye to work, Wild Robin!" "What to do?" meekly asked the boy, hungrily glancing at a few kernels of rye which had rolled out of one of the brownie's mortars. "Are ye hungry, my laddie? touch a grain of rye if ye dare! Shell these dry bains; and if so be ye're starving, eat as many as ye can boil in an acorn-cup."
What had led me to approach 'the Meenister' and confide my apprehension to him, as I have shown above, was the mute, appealing look in poor 'Brownie's' eyes. But as 'Brownie' looked much brighter and happier during the next few weeks I regained my own equanimity, and grew somewhat shamed of my first nervous fears.
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