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If he's backslid agin, nothin' but my little, peaked-faced chap will ever bring him around a nuther time." Haldane was stalking up and down the room in strong excitement and quite oblivious of Mr. Growther's perplexity. "The unutterable fool!" he exclaimed, "to part from such a woman as Laura Romeyn for any cause save death." "Well, hang it all! if he's a fool that's his business.
And you compared yourself with that little, peaked-faced chap that's around just the same you with shoulders as broad as them are, and two stars on 'em too!" The old man nearly went beside himself with joy. He gave the cat and dog each a vigorous kick, and told them to "wake up and see if they could believe their eyes."
But we shall have many a good talk over old times, if not here, why, in the better home, for your 'peaked-faced little chap' will surely lead you there," and he explained all in a few brief sentences. "And now, my kind, true friend, good-by. I thank you from my heart for the shelter you have given me, and for your stanch friendship when friends were so few.
It was late in the afternoon and Peace and Allee were standing by the window watching the sinking sun, when a ragged, stooped, old man trailed down the quiet street with a battered, wheezy, old hand-organ strapped to his back and a wizened, wistful-eyed, peaked-faced child at his heels.
Arnot reside in their old home, but Mrs. Egbert Haldane is its mistress. Much effort was made to induce Mr. Growther to take up his abode there also, but he would not leave the quaint old kitchen, where he said "the little peaked-faced chap was sittin' beside him all the time." At last he failed and was about to die. Looking up into Mrs.
Growther found that he could no longer live a hermit's life, and began in good earnest to look for the "little, peaked-faced chap" that had grown to be more and more of a reality to him; but the rest of Hillaton almost forgot that Haldane had ever existed.
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