"Thank you: all my things come by express, so I've nothing to do but get into a carriage."
"Then allow me to see you safely there, for the sake of the treasures, if nothing else;" and John led her away, utterly ignoring the presence of "George," who stood looking after them, with a face full of good-humored interest and amusement.
"I'm very much obliged. Good-by," said Dolly, from the coach window.
"Not good-by: I'm coming to the fair, you know," answered John, lingering at the door as if loath to lose sight of his little friend.
"I forgot all about it!"
"I didn't; for I depend on the cakes and ale and all the other good things promised me."
"You will find them there," with a smile, and then a sudden blush as she remembered that he had not only agreed to speak to "Miss Dolly," but to "win her old heart."
He remembered also, and laughed as he bowed with the same audacious look he had worn when he made that rash vow.
"I wonder if he will come?" thought the girl, as she drove away.
"As if I should forget!" said John to himself, as he trudged through the snow, quite regardless of his waiting friend; for from the little cinder had been kindled a spark of the divine fire that moves one of the great engines which transport mankind all the world over.