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But I found Noemi too much excited and fatigued for further conversation; so, promising to take every possible care of Bambin and to come again and see her very soon, I withdrew to the adjoining ward and joined Eugene. No need to say that both these promises were faith-fully observed.
But one evening late in September, as I sat immersed in study, my ear caught the sound of light girlish footsteps on the staircase leading to my rooms; then came a momentary pause, a tap on the door, and the next minute Noemi herself, closely followed by the faithful Bambin, burst upon my solitude. "I have found him, monsieur!" she cried breathlessly.
But he had left the house of business for which he had worked, and they knew nothing of him at his lodgings, and there were ever so many of my letters on the table in the conciergerie unopened. So I could learn nothing, for no one knew where he had gone, and little by little the money I had brought with me went in food for me and Bambin.
Then the people picked me up, and carried me here, but none of them knew Bambin, and I had fainted and could tell them nothing. So they must have driven him away, thinking he was a strange dog, and had no right to follow me. And when my senses came back I was in the hospital, and Bambin was gone, and I thought I never should see him again."
As I spoke I produced the tinsel ornament from my pocket, but before I finished my last sentence she started forward with a joyous cry, and but for the timely intervention of Eugene, who stood beside the bed, the injured arm might have suffered seriously from the effects of her excitement. "Ah!" she cried, weeping with joy; "my Bambin, my dear Bambin!
Unconsciously I questioned her as I might have questioned a child. She hardly seemed old enough to have the right over her own secrets. "Yes, monsieur. But I do not know where he is; and I have looked for him so long, ah, so long!" What, have you lost him too, then, as well as Bambin?" She shook her head, and looked troubled "Tell me," said I, coaxing her, "perhaps I may be able to find him also."
She made me no reply in words, but bending forward over her pillow she took my hand and timidly kissed it. It would be hard to say which of us was the happier on the day which saw Noemi installed in her new abode, -she, or I, or Bambin.
"Mira, cuor mio durissimo, Il bel Bambin Gesù, Che in quel presepe asprissimo, Or lo fai nascer tu!" She did not hear a distant door open, nor did she see through it the man who had unconsciously lured her into the church the evening before by the power of his playing.
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