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"You've made me happier to-day'n I've been in many a week. Peg'll be all right.... Everybody'll be all right.... God bless us!" Jinnie sat up with bright, inquiring eyes. "Did you tell Peg I was to know about " "About our baby?" intervened Lafe tenderly. He dwelt lovingly on those precious words. "Yes, about your baby," repeated Jinnie. "Yes, I told 'er, dear. I said you'd want to be happy too."
In the midst of his meditation, Jinnie returned to her seat. "Cobbler, will you do something I ask you?" "Sure," assented Lafe. "Get busy trusting Peg'll get the two dollars to-night." "I have long ago, child, an' she's goin' to get it, too. That's one blessin' about believin'. No one nor nobody can keep you from gettin' what's your own." "Mrs.
"I should think so, but but I want to know how soon, Lafe, dear." "Oh, it's a long time, a whole lot of weeks!" "I wish it was to-morrow," lamented Jinnie, disappointedly. "I wonder if Peg'll let me hug and kiss him." "Sure," promised Lafe, and they lapsed into silence. At length, Jinnie stole to the kitchen. She returned with her violin box and Milly Ann in her arms.
"You're good 'nough for me and Happy Pete," she asserted, "and Lafe'll let you be his little boy too." The blind child gasped, and the girl continued assuringly, "Peg'll love you, too. She couldn't help it." "Peg?" queried Bobbie. "Oh, she's Lafe's wife. Happy Pete and me stay in her house." The blind eyes flashed with sudden hope. "Mebbe she'll love me a little! Will she?" "I hope so.
Bring her back to ye and kape her with ye until the right man comes along an' he must be an Irishman straight of limb an' of character with the joy of livin' in his heart and the love of yer little girl first to him in the wurrld, an' then ye'll know ye've done the right thing by her; for it's the only happiness yer Peg'll ever know to be an Irish wife an' an Irish mother as well as an Irish daughther.
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