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But there was dumb rebellion within when his mother read him the letter he was to carry to the principal a letter written by Brother Crafts to one of like precious faith, commending the lamb of the flock, and definitely committing that lamb as a chosen vessel. It was unfair, he cried inwardly, in a hot upflash of antagonism.
"I'm glad if it doesn't bore you," he rejoined, willing to agree with her for the sake of prolonging the interview. "But to me it is nothing more than a dreary wilderness, as I say; a barren, rock-ribbed gulch affording an indifferent right of way for two railroads." "For one," she corrected, in a quick upflash of loyalty for her kin.
"Ah!" he exclaimed with a sudden indrawing of his breath. "You don't know what it is costing me!" "Truly, I don't," she asserted calmly. "Your father is a great and good man. If he had a daughter instead of a son, she would know and understand." Then, in a quick and generous upflash of feeling: "I wish he had a daughter I wish I were she! I should try to show him that blood is thicker than water!"
I completely lost sight of my own involvement in the upflash of joy at the thought that at the long last the two old scoundrels who had robbed others right and left were going to get what was coming to them. Benedict went on with his story quietly and circumstantially. "I guessed at once what Whitredge was up to when I found that he was circulating that pardon petition.
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