Whatever the answer was to this, it made Jewel's anxious brows relax and she laughed into the 'phone.
"Grandpa, you're such a joker! One smile won't make you any fatter," she protested.
Another listening silence, then:—
"You know the reason I feel the worst, don't you?"
"Why yes, you do. What we were talking about yesterday." The child sighed. "Well, isn't it a comfort about eternity?"
"Yes, indeed, and I guess I'll kiss the 'phone now, grandpa. Can you hear me?"
"Well, you do it, too, then. Yes—yes—I hear it; and you'll come home early because you know—our secret?"
"What? A lot of men waiting for you? All right. You know I love you just the same, even if I did sleep, don't you?"
"Good-by, then, good-by."
She hung up the receiver and turned a beaming face upon her dumbfounded parents.