“Yes, but she and—and the baby will come, too, of course.”
“Humph!... The old scamp must have had a change of heart. Ready to forget and forgive, maybe, like the rich old granddads, or whatever they were, in the Sunday School books. Well, he can afford to forgive. He is rich, blast him! That is, provided the lawyers haven’t got the whole of the plunder.”
She waited a moment longer. Then she leaned toward him.
“Is that all you’ve got to say?” she asked, anxiously. “I shall have to write Esther, you know, and she will want to be told everything.”
He did not appear to have heard. He was absently folding the letter. Suddenly he spoke, but to himself more than to her. “I wonder who the young shaver looks like,” he muttered.
It was very little, but it was enough. Reliance was satisfied. She could await Esther’s homecoming with a light heart.
The End
STORIES BY JOSEPH C. LINCOLN
QUEER JUDSON—Carey Judson, a square peg in a round hole, returns from Boston to Cape Cod and at length finds happiness and contentment.
RUGGED WATER—Old Cape Cod days with Calvin Homer rising to the position of Captain of the lifesaving station.