CHAPTER XXIX
PEG’S VISIT
One morning Bobbie sat down gravely some distance from Lafe, took up one of Milly Ann’s kittens, and fell into troubled thought. After permitting him to be silent a few moments, the cobbler remarked,
“Anything on your mind, comrade?”
“Yes,” said Bobbie, sighing.
“Can’t you tell a feller what it is?”
Bobbie pushed the kitten from his lap. He crept to the cobbler’s side slowly. Then, as he leaned his golden head against his friend, Lafe’s arm fell about him.
“Tell me, laddie,” insisted Mr. Grandoken.
“My stars’re all gone out,” faltered the boy sadly.
“What made ’em go out, Bob?... Can you tell?”