When Sam returned Will picked up the paper that was placed on the top step, thanked him, and turned to reënter the house.
"Say, Billy," said Sam, "what am I goin' to say to folks when they ask me?"
"Tell them all that you know."
"And s'posin' they asked me if you was married?"
"Tell them that if they live long enough they'll know sometime," replied Will, as he shut the door, and ran lightly up the stairs to the sickroom. Barbara met him at the door with her finger on her lips cautioning silence.
"He's asleep," she said.
Chapter XXIV
A Wedding and a Sermon