"And understanding, you will still come to—" she smiled, "to work in
Denny's garden?"
"Yes," he answered with a boyish laugh, "just as if there were no other place in all the world where I could get a job."
She watched him as he swung down the walk, through the gate and away up the street under the big trees.
And as she watched him, she recalled his words, "I need you;—just as though there were no other place in all the world." The words repeated themselves in her mind.
How much did they mean, she wondered.
CHAPTER XXV.
A LABORER AND HIS HIRE
"But it was a reaching out in the dark, a blind groping for something—Dan knew not exactly what: a restless but cautious feeling about for a place whereon to set his feet."
It was the Sunday evening following the incidents just related that Dan was challenged.
His sermon was on "Fellowship of Service," a theme very different from the subjects he had chosen at the beginning of his preaching in Corinth. The Doctor smiled as he listened, telling himself that the boy was already beginning to "reach out." As usual the Doctor was right. But it was a reaching out in the dark, a blind groping for something—Dan knew not exactly what: a restless but cautious feeling about for a place whereon to set his feet.