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Grennell. "And now," said the little grandmother, "every one go home, and let me put this naughty girl to bed," but she smiled at Judy as she said it, and the tired little maid put her arms around her, and buried her face in the motherly bosom, and shook in a sudden chill. "I am afraid she is going to be ill," said the Judge, anxiously, but the little grandmother tried to cheer him.
Grennell, who was rushing breathlessly up the steps. "Has the train gone?" panted the minister. "Yes." Dr. Grennell wiped his heated forehead. "I am sorry for that," he said, "I wanted especially to see the Judge." He had a letter in his hand, and he stood looking at it perplexedly.
"Why, the man must be Judy's father!" said Launcelot, and when he had thus voiced the doctor's thought, the two stared at each other with white faces. "She always believed he was alive," said Launcelot at last. "Pray God that it is really he?" said Dr. Grennell, reverently. "And now what can we do?" asked the boy. "We must not say a word to Judy yet.
As she met him at the lower door, he swung something bright and shining in front of her eyes. "We found it," he whispered, excitedly, as Judy took her chain with a cry of delight. "We came across the gipsies on the Upper Fairfax road. The man tried to bluff it out, but the girl gave him away. While he was talking to Dr. Grennell she told me that he had it.
It had taken him away, it would bring him back some day, and was not this man saying it, as he ended his sermon, "He bringeth them into their desired haven "? Dr. Grennell had never seen Judy, but he knew the tragedy in the Judge's life, and as she listened to him, Judy's face told him who she was. She went straight up to him after church.
She should not." And behind the dropped curtain Judy was saying to Dr. Grennell, "I want to go back to the sea. I hate the country. I want to go back to the wind and waves. I can't stand it here." But the doctor put his hand on her shoulder and looked down into her troubled face with grave eyes. "Not now," he said, quietly, "not while your grandfather needs you, Judy."
"I dropped him at the manse," said Launcelot, "but I couldn't wait to bring this to you. I thought you would want to know about it." "I couldn't sleep," explained Judy, "I was so afraid I had lost it." "It's a funny coin, isn't it," said Launcelot. "Dr. Grennell knows a lot about such things, and he says it is a very old one." "Yes," she told him.
Anne was very sweet, very appealing, as she went through the sad little scenes, and when at last she sat at the window. Dr. Grennell did not read Elaine's song, but Anne sang it, to Judy's accompaniment, played softly behind the scenes. "Sweet is true love, tho' given in vain, in vain; And sweet is death who puts an end to pain: I know not which is sweeter, no, not I."
Grennell had discovered him by means of the Spanish coins. But in the eyes of the children of Fairfax his adventures paled before those of Tommy Tolliver.
Grennell and Captain Jameson, engaged in an animated discussion; while in the window-seat, Judy and Launcelot gazed out upon the old garden. "I shall miss it awfully," said Judy, with a little sigh. Launcelot turned on her a startled glance. "Why?" he asked, "where are you going?" "Away to school," said Judy, "didn't Anne tell you?" "Oh, I say oh, I say, you're not, really?"