The door opened, and Mrs. Quinn walked in. There had been a rather heated talk at Mrs. MacBride’s.
Dil paused suddenly, with a swift, startled breath.
“What’s that ye got?” She came nearer and glared over Dil. “An’ who gev ye that?”
“A—a woman left it!” exclaimed Dil tremulously. “An old woman with trac’s—”
She pulled Dil up to her feet, and the book fell to the floor.
“An’ it wasn’t that—that singin’ man?”
She shook her so that Dil could scarcely make a sound, and for once she hardly minded.
“No man has been here,” declared Bess.
“Shet yer head!” roared her mother. “Pick up that buke. What’s it all about?”
“’Bout a woman they told me of in the Mission School. She took her children an’—was goin’ to heaven—”