Job thought he would stop there for a while, and let her think over what he had said, but all at once she asked:
"Gran'father, do you think father was remembered?"
"Don't ye remember him, eh, deary?"
"'Tain't that I mean. He wanted to be remembered."
"And sure you wouldn't go to forget him, Ailie?"
"'Tain't that," repeated Ailie. "'Twas a story Mrs. Forsyth told him, of a thief as wanted to be remembered; an' father, he wanted it too, an' he asked—"
"Asked who?" inquired Job, anxious to draw her out.
"And he made me ask too, he did."
"Ask who, deary?"
"Why,—I don't exactly know. Somebody as was nailed up, he said."