"Jed, Jed!"
Jed turned, and saw only a couple of rods distant the boy of whom he had been thinking, walking beside his tall and stately aunt, who, after discharging Jed, had felt obliged to undertake the charge of her young nephew herself.
"Why, Chester!" said Jed with a bright smile.
Chester broke away from his aunt, and running up to Jed took his hand confidingly.
"Aunt Maria says you are going away!" he broke out. "What makes you go away?"
"Your aunt has sent me away," announced Jed.
"But I won't let you go," said the little boy, taking a firmer grip of Jed's hand.
"Come back directly, Chester!" said Miss Holbrook frowning.
"I want to stay with Jed," said Chester rebelliously.