"No, miss," the old woman answered, meeting her eyes in a look of understanding; "he may lose his life in the trenches, but, thank God, he has found his soul!"
"Captain Basset is coming to-morrow," remarked Donald, after a brief silence.
"I shall bring him to see you—" Josephine was beginning when she paused abruptly. "I was forgetting that he could not see you," she said, as the others looked at her inquiringly, adding, with a note of pain in her voice: "When I think of father it is difficult to picture him blind. And he will always be blind!"
"Not always," the old woman reminded her; "his eyes shall see the King in His beauty, shall they not?"
"Oh, yes!" Josephine cried, her face brightening, "thank you for reminding me of that! And Jesus has promised, 'He that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness!'"
"He will keep His promise," Mrs. Rumbelow replied earnestly; "His word has never failed us and never will. No one is in darkness who has opened his heart to the patient, loving Saviour, for He will be a light to lighten his darkness and will abide with him for ever and ever."
"Yes," Josephine said softly, "I know!—oh, I know!"
[CHAPTER XII]
TWO HEROES
"OH, Uncle John, I see him! I see him!"