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She had had an experience wide enough for all. She had found where it was still. She longed to draw all others into that stillness. Soon Grandma was on her way to give help and consolation where it was most needed in Captain Sartell's household. She did not come back until near mid-day. Mrs. Philander's children were kept carefully out of the room when she entered.
Philander that I was going to live with Grandma a while, that I should not go through that part of the Ark where she and the children were, and she must keep the little door at the foot of the stairway locked, and not let the children follow me; and I sprinkled myself with camphor and went back with Grandma to Captain Sartell's house. Mrs. Sartell was alone in the room with Bess.
The tides crept in lazily. All one weary afternoon, in the hum and stir of the dusty school-room, little Bessie Sartell Captain Sartell's youngest, and his darling sat stringing lilac blossoms together in a chain. She was such a cunning edition of the big Captain.
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