Bobbie ran his fingers over the paper, trying with sensitive finger tips to follow the ink traces.
“Can I keep it a little while?” he begged.... “Please, Peggy!”
“Sure,” said Peg, putting him down, and when the baby cried, Mrs. Grandoken left the blind child hugging Happy Pete, with Jinnie’s letter flattened across his chest between him and the dog.
CHAPTER XLII
BOBBIE TAKES A TRIP
Jinnie had been gone two weeks. Nearly every day the postman brought a letter from the girl to Peggy, and after reading it several times to herself, she gave it to Blind Bobbie. Mrs. Grandoken had discovered this was the way to keep him quiet.
One afternoon the boy sat on the front steps of the cobbler’s shop, sunning himself.
“You can hear Jinnie better when she comes,” said Peg, as an excuse to coax him out of doors. “Now sit there till I get back from the market.”