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At Johnstown, Pa.: After two or three days a man happened to die on the railroad, and all the men at that station, perhaps a hundred in number, accompanied the corpse to the church. Father Hecker seized the opportunity to address them and to give them a mission ferveroso. The result was successful.
Brice left them to go back into the room of torment, and watch by the sergeant's pallet. Virginia's eyes followed her up the stairs, and then she and her father walked slowly to the carriage. With her foot on the step Virginia paused. "Pa," she said, "do you think it would be possible to get them to let us take that Arkansan into our house?"
"There comes the mail," called Jean, starting up and running down the drive like a young deer, as the little cart hove in sight. The carrier waved a newspaper and letter at them. "Nothin' for you girls, to-day, only a letter for your pa, and weekly newspaper for Hiram. I'll leave it up at the old place as I go by."
The neighbors were well aware of Nina's devotion, and Mrs. Smith, who lived two or three houses down the road, said, "Good evening, Claude. Seen Nina today?" "Sure! and she gave me a piece of currant pie-her own make." "Did you eat it?" "Did I? I guess yes. I ain't refusin' pie from Nina-not while her pa has five hundred acres of the best land in Molasses Gap."
She, saw her father blush once, slightly, and then smile, as if partly flustered as Jane herself phrased it. "What a dear good old sentimental soul she is!" thought the girl. "I'll bet a cent she is asking pa to put up a dormitory for boys on the other side of the campus!" Mrs.
"The brute! Are you going to pay?" "No, Jinny." "Then they will take away the furniture." "I reckon they will." "Pa, you must promise me to take down the mahogany bed in your room. It it was mother's. I could not bear to see them take that. Let me put it in the garret." The Colonel was distressed, but he spoke without a tremor. "No, Jinny. We must leave this house just as it is."
Carvel, sternly, "your memory's too good. But I proved myself a good business man, Jinny; he paid for her in a year." "You don't mean that you made him pay you for the boat?" cried Jinny. "Why, Pa, I didn't think you were that mean!" The two men laughed heartily. "I was a heap meaner," said her father. "I made him pay interest." Virginia drew in her breath, and looked at the Colonel in amazement.
They had assumed their parts which were almost to the burlesque of poverty, when the door was pushed open and Billy burst in followed by Elaine and the chauffeur. "Oh, ma oh, pa," he cried running forward and kissing his pseudo- parents, as Elaine, overcome with sympathy, directed the chauffeur to lay the things on a shaky table.
"De time pass quick, and Miss Daisy see her pa'," he said at last. I did not think the time passed quick. I said so. "Do little missie ask de Lord for help?" Darry said, his eyes by this time as watery as mine. "Do Miss Daisy know, it nebber lonesome where de Lord be? He so good." I could not stand any more.
Teeny-bits started it and Wolcott Norris helped him out, and when it was all done and Ma and Pa Holbrook grasped the full import of its meaning, there was no unpleasant scene. Ma Holbrook put her handkerchief to her eyes, and the station agent said, "There, there, mother, don't cry." "I'm not really crying," declared Ma Holbrook. "I'm just a little bit weepy, I'm so glad for Teeny-bits."
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