“Look at him, Lenny. He is your papa.”
“Lenny’s popper?” inquired the baby looking with great eyes at the stranger, who had now taken on a new interest for him.
“Yes,” softly answered his mother.
“Lenny dot popper too?”
At this innocent question, in which so much was expressed, Alexander, again conscience-stricken, turned away his head to hide the tears that rushed to his eyes.
But for all reply, Drusilla stooped and kissed her child and handed him back to his father.
The reconciliation was perfect.
Later, they went into the drawing-room, to which Dick brought Anna and General Lyon all of whom, amid tears and caresses, offered their earnest congratulations to the reunited pair; and rejoiced with an exceeding great joy over the restoration of little Lenny.
But all this was nothing to the frantic delight of Pina when she heard little Lenny had been found. She ran to him, she snatched him up, kissed him and hugged him, and laughed and cried over him to such a degree that even Master Leonard, who could bear a great deal of that sort of thing, was obliged to order her to—
“’Top it.”