"You are a good boy, Jack dear, and would be a great comfort to me if we were never to part until the good God calls me home."
Chapter XVI.
A HURRIED DEPARTURE.
It was not until the following morning that Aunt Nancy paid any particular attention to the circular regarding camp meeting which Bill Dean had brought.
Then, as Jack came in from milking, she said with a suddenness which caused the boy to start in surprise,—
"I have been thinking about the camp meeting. What is your opinion?"
"I don't know what you mean."
"You remember the paper which William Dean brought last night?"
"Yes."
"Well, it was the time-table of the trains which run to the grounds. Somehow your coming upset me so I had forgotten all about the meeting, and if I should miss it, it would be the first time since I was quite a young girl."