“The world has turned about,” said the master, with a curious, puzzled look, and then he turned about himself. But he had not gone three steps before he came back again.
“Say, my boy,” he said, “come up to the house after supper to-night. Tell Aunt Dinah, the cook, that master said you were to come to the library. Do you understand?”
“Yes, sir,” replied Tom; “I will come, sir.”
So the master went away, and Tom returned to his task, so intent and interested that it never entered into his mind to conjecture why he was wanted in the evening at the mansion.
CHAPTER III.
“O little hearts! that throb and beat
With such impatient, feverish heat,
Such limitless and strong desires!”
Longfellow.