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The Colonel consulted his watch, whose heavy gold case still showed the marks of a providential interference with a bullet destined for its owner, and replaced it with some difficulty and shortness of breath in his fob. At the same moment he heard a step in the passage, and the door opened to Adoniram K. Hotchkiss. The Colonel was impressed; he had a duellist's respect for punctuality.
When the door opened Henry, whose shadow Jerome had seen on the window-pane, looked up with the vacant peering of the blind, but his fingers never ceased twirling the knitting-needles. "How are you?" said Jerome. Adoniram returned his salutation without rising, and bade him take a chair. Henry spoke not at all, and bent his dim eyes again over his knitting without a smile.
'Twas interesting and instructive to listen to and amused the populace on rainy days, so Peter T. said. Adoniram Rogers had been mighty scurce 'round the Old Home sense the davenport deal. But one morning he showed up unexpected. A boarder had dug up an antique somewheres in the shape of a derelict plate, and was displaying it proud on the piazza.
"To win for the Lamb that was slain the reward of his sufferings" has turned illiterate men in India into indomitable propagandists of Christianity; but it has also made missionaries in Oxford and Edinburgh, in Leicester and Andover missionaries like Reginald Heber and John G. Paton, like William Carey and Adoniram Judson.
As he passed the lighted sitting-room windows he saw a monstrous shadow with steadily moving hands on the curtain. He fumbled his way through the lighted room, in which sat Adoniram Judd closing shoes and his son Henry knitting.
Even to give a list of the men and women who have sacrificed their lives in the attempt to carry the gospel of Christianity to heathen nations is beyond the limits of a book like this, but at least mention can be made of two of the earliest, Adoniram Judson and his wife, whose experiences form one of the most thrilling chapters in missionary history.
The barn doors rolled back, and there stood Adoniram, with the long mild face of the great Canadian farm horse looking over his shoulder. Nanny kept behind her mother, but Sammy stepped suddenly forward, and stood in front of her. Adoniram stared at the group. "What on airth you all down here for?" said he. "What's the matter over to the house!" "We've come here to live, father," said Sammy.
She turned again to her work, and spread out a pattern carefully on the cloth. "Nothin'," said she. Presently Adoniram clattered out of the yard in his two-wheeled dump cart, standing as proudly upright as a Roman charioteer. Mrs. Penn opened the door and stood there a minute looking out; the halloos of the men sounded louder.
"I thought when he wouldn't bid there was something wrong with the dishes. And there WAS something wrong, too. Now what was it?" "Maybe the price was too high," says I. "No, 'twa'n't that. I b'lieve yet he thought they were imitations. Oh, if they only were!" And then, lo and behold you, around the corner comes Adoniram Rogers.
Then he went back again to the Judd house, and this time when he reached the door he opened it and went in. When he entered the sitting-room, where Adoniram and Paulina Maria and Henry were, they all looked up in astonishment. "Forgot anything?" inquired Adoniram. "Yes," replied Jerome. Then he went on, speaking fast, in a strained voice, which he tried hard to make casual.
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