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Only there was no uncle Dick to help him in his heart's desire to become an engineer, and he would have to fight his own way. But Mr. Dainton was quite disposed to be a true friend. "I like your pluck, my boy, and I'll see what I can do, for my old friend's sake, and for your kindness to a little kitten.
How wonderfully God had answered his prayers! "Hulloa, you young hopeful, what do you mean by sleeping all through dinner, and then waking just as we've cleared the dishes?" And Mr. Dainton stooped to the cradle by the hearth, where a bonny six-month's old baby had wakened with a cry. "What, fretty, little man? Those teeth do bother you, don't they? And I can't stop to take you now."
"Let me have him!" cried Dick, quickly, holding out his arms. "I've had a lot to do with babies." And to their great surprise, baby Jack went to him at once with a contented chuckle, and settled down as if he had known him always. "I like that, now," said the father as he took his cap to go. "He's mostly so shy with strangers." Mrs. Dainton nodded her head as if to say "He'll do."
"I've got slops and overalls just like the other men, to work in, and I'm going to a night school and a technical class, and Mr. Dainton has lent me a big book about engines, with pictures all through. "I should like to know how baby Lily is at Mrs. Fowley's, if you could find out, and whether they were vexed at my running away. But please don't tell them I am here.
I just managed to get down to a ship and I worked my passage home, though I felt I was only coming back to die. But I did want to get to the old place again and to see George's boy. He's the very image of what I used to be, and like his father too, only a taller build, I fancy." "And as good as he is high," said Mrs. Dainton with a smile at her favourite.
Ever since her illness, George had shewn her a tender devotion; and, when Sonia Dainton and her other friends had succumbed to the war-epidemic of marriage, she had fancied that it would be very restful to marry him. The mood lasted for a week, and it was in this time that she had invited him to the Abbey.
"Our firm is splendid, I should think six times as big as the tin works, and I am going to try so hard there. "Ironboro' is very dirty, and there are publics everywhere. The men drink a great deal here, and it is such a pity. Mr. Dainton says they could do well if they liked, because the pay is so good.
"That's a smart lad," said the manager to Dainton that evening, "and if the firm doesn't do something for him, I will." "You're right, sir," said Dainton emphatically. "He's smart and plucky too. Whatman's neither more nor less than a brute when he's roused, and this affair proves that he's none too honest. You know he was more than suspected when the brass filings were missed, that time."
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