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"Why, bless you, one of them is mine, and there'll be one ready for everybody who loves him." Tode's voice sank to a husky whisper. "Do you think there's one getting ready for me?" "There's no kind of doubt about it, not if you love the Lord Jesus.
That depends . Tode's happened, fortunately, to be much the stronger mind of the two; and besides, you remember the guide which mounted guard in his jacket pocket.
"Him," in Tode's thought was the bishop, and he waited patiently through the early part of the service, longing to hear again that rich, strong, thrilling voice. But alas for Tode! It was not the bishop who preached that day.
Rick, he never comes home for all night, 'cause he can't get away. And then you'll help me keep an eye on Jim, and say a word to him now and then when you can, and pray for him every single day will you now?" So when the night closed in, Tode's bundle was unpacked, and his clothes hung on Jim's nails, and once again he had a home. By next evening business had fairly commenced.
Then did Tode's skill at making figures shine forth. In the bright red chalks did he quickly produce a circle of the nine figures around his pasteboard circle. "Now what is all that for, I should like to know?" Winny asked, looking on half interestedly, half contemptuously. "I'm just going to show you.
They were old but clean, and it was trying to Nan to see Little Brother's pure, sweet face and fresh garments held by Tode's dirty hands against his dirtier jacket. But the baby did not mind. He looked as contented as Tode did, and when the boy's grimy fingers touched his thin cheek, Little Brother laughed a soft, happy, gurgling laugh that was music in Tode's ears.
Tode's uneducated, undisciplined conscience had to say nay to this. Well, then, was it evil? "I feel mean," he said, reflectively. "As mean as a thief, pretty near. I wouldn't like to have anybody know it. I wouldn't tell of it for anything. S'pose I go down there to that prayer-meeting and tell it. Would I do it? No, sir 'cause why? I'm ashamed of it.
Then came thoughts of Nan and Little Brother, and these brought comfort to Tode's sorrowful heart. He had not forgotten Little Brother during the past weeks. There had never been a day when he had not thought of the child with a longing desire to see him, though even for his sake he could hardly have brought himself to lose a day with the bishop.
Nevertheless he did not yet make known the fact of his early acquaintance with Tode not so much now that he wanted to keep it to help in melting the boy's heart, as that he had come to realize that Tode's mother was already his one tender memory, and that everything about that death-bed scene, if remembered at all, must be fraught with pain; so he still kept the story until some quiet time when they should be in a pleasant room alone.
At last his face broadened, and his eyes twinkled, and he leaned back in his seat and indulged in a long, loud, hearty laugh. Tode's eyes twinkled, but he waited decorously for the laugh to subside. "This is the most ridiculous thing I ever heard of in my life," began the gentleman when he could speak. "So you're traveling with me, are you? And what do you propose to do when you get to Cleveland?"
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