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Enoch turned into the combined store and post-office, and the stranger stood on the platform, bestowing his tobacco-stained smile generously upon the bystanders. "Thee'll find the hotel a little further up the street," said Enoch; "there may be no one about; I think I saw Isaac and Esther Penthorn driving toward Maravilla this afternoon. But they'll be back before dark.
"There's no one I can call upon," said she, "without it's Betsy Lavender, and I must ask you to tell her for me, if you think she can come." "I'll oblige thee, certainly," the Doctor answered. "Betsy is with us, just now, and I don't doubt but she can spare a day or two. She may be a little headstrong in her ways, but thee'll find her a safe nurse."
Then, beaming at the boy through her spectacles, she said: "Well, thee is an honest lad; and, if thee'll look after my bags while I get my ticket, and then help me to the train, I'll give thee a quarter."
You can have no idea how grateful your manner is to one who has no one to care for him specially." "Thee'll always have some one to care for thee now; but thee mustn't say anything more;" and I saw strong sympathy in her moist eyes. "Yes," I breathed softly, "I should have died in New York." "And thee said an imp from the printing-house could take care of thee," she replied, with a low laugh.
"If thee will follow me, friend," he said, "I'll give thee a seat with the men folks. Thee's welcome, and thee'll feel more at home to follow our ways." His cordial grasp of my hand would have disarmed suspicion itself, and I followed him meekly.
Thee did not get angry, and push thy little sister, thee knows thee didn't, Susan! Thee was only in a hurry, and rather thoughtless. The best of us often do very foolish things, and cause much mischief; but thee'll find it isn't best to grieve over these mistakes.
"But I want thee, too, Abel dear," sobbed Jan. "I be thinking perhaps them that brought thee hither'll fetch thee away some day, Jan. But thee'll see to mother?" repeated Abel, his eyes wandering restlessly with a look of pain. Jan knew now that he was only an adopted child of the windmill, though he stoutly ignored the fact, being very fond of his foster- parents.
And as Jan sat down, and put his arms about him, on the very spot where they had so often sat together, learning the alphabet and educating their thumbs, Abel laid his head on his foster-brother's shoulder, saying, "I do think, Janny dear, that Mary, she wants me, and the others too. I think I be going after them. But thee'll look to mother, Janny dear, eh?"
"I will explain as we walk." "Well, come along!" blurted the wayfarer. "Nothing more can happen to me, anyway." "So thee has found one of thy own kind to follow about in the world?" inquired the father, tauntingly. "Feathers on the head and rattles in the hand! Cockahoops and fiddle-de-lorums! Thee'll be back soon with thy folly cured after I have bailed thee from the calaboose!
"Now, gentlemen, boots and saddles, an' it please you," suggested Lee, politely. "Thee'll not force a wounded man to take such exposure," protested Mrs. Meredith. "Lieutenant Hennion " Brereton carried on the speech: "Can drink punch and study divinity. I'll warrant he's not so near to death's door but he can bear one-half the ride of our poor starved troopers and beasts."
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