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Updated: May 28, 2025
Straining their eyes after him, as if they would somehow pierce the dark woods which hid his flight, mother and daughter stood as if turned to stone. Only Virgie, after a moment, waved her hand and sent her soft, childish prayer winging after him to save him from all harm. "Good-by, Daddy-man, good-by!"
"Don't cry, Daddy-man," she murmured in his ear; "it's all right. I can eat the blackberries. They they don't taste so awful good when you have 'em all the time; but I don't mind." She paused to kiss him, then tried once more to buoy his hope and hers. "We'll have jus' heaps of things when we get to Richmon' jus' heaps an' then "
Pouf! only six miles on the two o'clock express bound north, why why! the very train that you and I will be taking, later, Daddy-man, along in May, when you try out experiments with that little model rocket you're working on now, upon old Mount Greylock highest mountain of the State.
Pem's blue-star eyes were dim now, but in them was the wisdom of babes the wisdom oft hid from the wise and prudent. "Daddy-man!" She bowed her head over the pearl-woven prophecy, speaking very low. "I could always tell you my thoughts.
"Oh! the trains the trains aren't held up, father." The coaxing weathercock now had a green arm around the neck of the man in the long, drab coat. "And I just couldn't give up going! I'm becoming such a daring ski-runner, Daddy-man; you'll be proud of me when you see! Why!
He leaned back against the wall and closed his eyes to shut out the dizziness with which exhaustion and hunger filled his aching head. The child watched him anxiously for a moment and then put a soft little hand on his shoulder: "Are you so tired, Daddy-man?" "Yes, dear," he answered with a faint smile as he opened his eyes. "I had to catch my breath, but I'm really all right.
"'Cause I'm so hungry for somethin' good." "Don't! Don't!" he cried, as he drew his coat away, roughly, fiercely, in the pain of unselfish suffering. "For Daddy's sake, don't!" "Why, what is it, Daddy," she asked, in her shrillness of a child's alarm, her eyes on the widening stain of red above his waist. "Is is it hurtin' you again? What is it, Daddy-man?"
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