"Indeed I will, sir."
"Thank you! And now you must go to bed. Good-by, my child!"
"But I'll see you in the morning, sir?"
"Who can say? We may both have other things to think about by that time, so we had better say good-by to each other now."
"But am I not to see you again?"
"Who can say that either! I have come a long way, you know, and now I may have to go--" he hesitated, and then turning away he said, "I may have to go still farther."
"You have been so kind to me, sir--I am sorry I can not go with you."
"Ah, God forbid!--I mean, you can not--I see you can not! But if you could have done so I should have been so fond of you, and we should have been such good friends together."
"I shall never forget you, sir."
"Nor I you. I shall always think of the brave little girl I met once--only once--and then could see no more.