JENNY AGAIN.
Franklin was suddenly recalled to America.
He stood at Samuel Franklin's door.
Samuel Franklin was an old man now.
"I have come to Boston once more," said Benjamin Franklin. "I would go to my parents' graves and the grave of Uncle Ben. But they are in the enemy's camp now. Samuel, I found your father's pamphlets in London."
"Is it possible? Where are they now?"
"I will return them to you when the colonies shall be free. The reading of them shall be a holiday in our old lives."
"I may never live to see that day. Benjamin, I am an old man. I want that you should will those pamphlets to my family."
The old men went out and stood by the gate late in the evening. The moon was rising over the harbor; it was a warm, still night. Sentries were pacing to and fro, for Boston was surrounded by sixteen thousand hostile men in arms.
The nine o'clock bell rang.