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Updated: June 11, 2025
The misery of it haunted him, and it was with a happiness as boyish and keen as Malcolm's that he led these children he had rescued into the home that was to be theirs henceforth. Keith did not see "Fairchance" until Memorial Day. Then they took him over in the carriage in the afternoon, and showed him every nook and corner of the place.
"Oh, papa, how much 'Fairchance' will mean to him, then! Oh, I'm so glad, and Keith why, Keith will want to stand on his head!" They drove directly to the new place. It was late in the afternoon, and the sunshine threw long, waving shadows across the yard. Mrs. Sudsberger sat on the front porch knitting.
It was the "Fairchance" that the boys had planned so long, with its rose-bordered paths, the orchard and garden and outlying fields. Nothing had been forgotten, from the big Newfoundland dog on the doorstep, to the ducks on the pond, and the little speckled pigs in the pen. The day that Keith was able to walk down-stairs for the first time, Mr.
And Aunt Allison said that 'an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and that to build such a place as our 'Fairchance' would be a deed worthy of any true knight." "How are you expecting to bring this wonderful thing to pass?" asked his father, as Malcolm stopped to take breath. "Do you expect to wave a wand and see it spring up out of the earth?"
Over the woods and fields they floated, until they reached the flag that kept its fluttering vigil over "Fairchance." Jonesy sat up in bed to listen. Many a reveille would sound before his full awakening to all that the two little knights had made possible for him, but the sweet, dim dream of the future that stole into his grateful little heart was an earnest of what was in store for him.
They keep it up at 'Fairchance, the home that Mr. MacIntyre founded for little waifs and strays. I s'pose that is what Malcolm meant by a travellin' show. I might have thought of that, for they are always makin' it show off its tricks." Eliot had found her voice by this time, and was sitting limply back in her chair with her hand over her heart.
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