"Jimmy" was urged at an unusual rate over the road, and pricked up his ears in astonishment as his master cried, "Faster, faster!"
"There, mother!" said Dave, when he entered the Fletcher kitchen; "just what I wanted has happened."
"What is that?" replied Mrs. Fletcher.
"Read this, mother, and you will see."
"For three months, Dave, and perhaps no longer, it means."
"Oh, well, it will be a stepping-stone to something, if I have to leave it. Just get started in Shipton and I can go it."
"But you haven't read about the pay, Dave."
"Well, mother, the fact is I like the place--I mean Shipton. I love to be near the salt water and where I can see the ships--"
"And the lighthouse--"
"Yes."