Mr. Vance quietly added the last verse,—
“Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the loving-kindness of the Lord,”
and with a short, simple prayer, closed a day the events of which no one of them could ever forget.
Even old Griggs would never again look out anxiously over the stormy seas, without a thought of the words—
“So He bringeth them unto their desired haven.”
X.
WILL’S DEBT.
“I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the unwise.”
“I’m sorry, Bill, and so ashamed.”
Will Carter said that, sitting beside Bill Finnegan, in the big covered wagon. The others had all jumped out to run up the last, long hill on their way home.