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Strong to his companion, "that I got a letter from my brother last evening?" "No; you did not." "Well, he's been recently to London and visiting with Elder Malby. It seems he can't keep away from that man, and I must say Elder Malby is a wonder. Such a spirit he has with him " "The missionary spirit, Brother Strong the spirit of the Lord."
"We're agreed on one thing then, aren't we?" Chester laughed with her. Elder Malby was pacing the deck, awaiting the call for breakfast; but Chester did not join him. "The man bothered me yesterday," she said, "and again last night. He wished to get acquainted, he claimed." "You don't know him, then?" "I've never seen him before. Papa has had to remain very quiet, and I haven't been around much.
And so it happened that the very next morning when the passengers were looking eagerly to the near approach to Queenstown, Lucy and Elder Malby were seen sitting on deck in earnest conversation. Chester promenaded at a distance with some envy in his heart; but he kept away. For fully an hour the girl and the elderly missionary talked. Then the minister, coming on deck saw them.
"A telegram for him, please." Chester opened the message and read: "Come to Liverpool in morning. All well. Tell me when and where to meet you Lucy." Chester handed the message to Elder Malby. "Once more, don't you see," said the elder, smiling, "all is well." "Yes; yes," replied Chester in a way which was more of a prayer of thanksgiving than common speech.
Bluff, straightforward troopers like Mountjoy, Malby, Wilmot, Bagenal, Chichester, and the rest, not pretending to such refinements, did their best in the way of hanging, stabbing, and burning. In those days as well as ours the children had their Charter. "Nits," said the trustees of civilisation, "will grow to lice."
At Lyons I had composed another, entitled 'La Decouverte du Nouveau Monde', which, after having read it to M. Bordes, the Abbes Malby, Trublet, and others, had met the same fate, notwithstanding I had set the prologue and the first act to music, and although David, after examining the composition, had told me there were passages in it worthy of Buononcini.
Shortly afterwards, Elder Malby arrived, and he saw in a moment that something was the matter with his young friend. "How are the folks," he asked, "Lucy and her father?" "He is not well," Chester replied. "That's too bad. And you are worried?" "Yes; but not altogether over that. There is something else, Brother Malby. I'll have to tell you about it. Will we be uninterrupted here?"
Some of my friends here know that, because sometimes I assist them in the fields. And I have given them some helpful American hints too, have I not, Brother Naylor?" "Aye, that you have." "Religion is not a thing apart from daily life," said Elder Malby, speaking more to the listening people than to the priest.
Monsieur Malby saw this as clearly as myself, though I am inclined to think he would never have dismissed me had I not spared him the trouble, which was an excess of condescension in this particular, that I certainly cannot justify.
Then there were doors slammed in his face, and some gracious smiles and "thank you" altogether Chester was so busy meeting these various people that he had no time to worry over those who now should be nearly to Kildare Villa in green Ireland. While he was eating supper with the elders, which Elder Malby said he had well earned, a messenger came to the door. Was one Chester Lawrence there? Yes.
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