"Then I don't see what you mean, sir."
"Have you a Bible, Mr. Renwick?"
"Yes, sir, of course."
"Read it?"
"Sometimes."
"Well, at one of those rare intervals," said Magnus, "put three marks in it. A red one here:
"'Call upon me here in the day of trouble. I will deliver thee.'"
The boy drew a long sigh.
"Mother's verse," he said. "But that will not bring me home."
"No, and you don't want to go. Then a long blue one here: