"Have you seen Him, this great man, Margy?"
"I have felt His healing power, little brother."
"Do you suppose--sister--could He make me walk like other boys, and run--oh, Margy, do you suppose I ever can run?"
"There is nothing the great Physician cannot do, Jamie."
Margaret reached for her Bible, one that Mrs. Thorpe had given her. She turned the leaves until she found the place that she desired.
"I am going to read you something that I have read many times, Jamie, and always with thoughts of you in mind:
"'And a certain man, lame from his mother's womb, was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple.
"'Who, seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked an alms.
"'And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said: "Look on us."
"'And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them.