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I stayed two years, during which time I contrived to save about 6 pounds; and with that, one fine morning, I set off on my travels, fully satisfied that, come what would, I could not change for the worse." "Then you were about in the position that I'm in now," said Joey, laughing. "Yes, thereabouts; only a little older, I should imagine.
And who might this fine little chap be?" It was only natural that a man who loved all boys, little and big, as Deacon Winslow did, should drop down on one knee and take Joey in his arms. When he looked into the little fellow's winsome face he seemed strangely moved.
A pack of greasy cards lay on the table-top, showing that Joey had been passing his time at solitaire. This fact showed Roy that the plot had been carefully concocted, and that the trap was all ready to be sprung much earlier in the day. Only a brain like Mortlake's, he reasoned, could have thought out such an intricate plan. And yet, what could be Mortlake's object?
He seized the pail, and slung the pole over his shoulder again, and trudged off. "All right," said Polly, with a loving little pat, "and oh, Joey, I'm so sorry I was cross and shook you." "I don't care," said Joel, pleasantly, "'cause you dug my worms for me, Polly," and he raced off. But Polly went into the little brown house with a very sober face.
"There!" shouted Ben, throwing down the hammer. "You've told it, Joe, just the same as I knew you would. Ha, ha!" "Don't, Ben," begged Polly, "it teases Joel. Well, we don't know what kind of a circus you are going to have, Joey," she said kindly, "so we'll be just as much surprised when we see it."
After their early dinner, when Joey and Ernest and their father were left alone, Theobald rose and stood in the middle of the hearthrug under the Elijah picture, and began to whistle in his old absent way.
'Give him time and you'll see! said Farnborough, with a wag of his head. 'Yes, said Lord John, 'he's still a young man. Barely forty. 'Barely forty! They believe in prolonging their youth, don't they? said Lady Sophia to no one in particular, and with her mouth rather more full of cake than custom prescribes. 'Good thing it isn't us, ain't it, Joey?
The play was a good répertoire play, and we did it later on in America with success. There the part of Houseman was played by Terriss, who was quite splendid in it, and at Chicago my little boy Teddy made his second appearance on any stage as Joey, a gardener's boy.
Joel lay so still and white in Ben's arms that Polly turned quite faint. But when she saw Mamsie's face, she bent over to Phronsie. "Come here, Pet," she tried to say, as she drew her off that she might not see. "What is it, Polly?" asked Phronsie, wonderingly. "What is Ben carrying Joey for?" "Now I must wash off the cake-crumbs, they're all over your face, Phronsie," said Polly, desperately.
He sat back, while Jackson talked of the border and Joey slipped in and pretended to sharpen lead pencils. Clayton's eyes wandered to the window. Outside in the yard were other men, now employees of his, who would soon be in khaki. Out of every group there in a short time some would be gone, and of those who would go a certain number would never come back.
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