CHAPTER IX.
FOR WAT’S SAKE.
“As the stars for ever and ever.”
“JACK,” Ruby says very soberly, “I want you to do something for me.”
Crowning joy has come at last to Ruby. Mrs. Kirke’s expected letter, backed by another from her son, has come, inviting the Thornes to spend the first week of the New Year with them. And now Ruby’s parents have departed to pay some flying visits farther north, leaving their little girl, at Mrs. Kirke’s urgent request, to await their return in Greenock.
“For Jack’s sake I should be so glad if you could allow her,” Jack’s mother had said. “It makes everything so bright to have a child’s presence in the house, and Jack and I have been sad enough since Walter died.”