Uncle William

nd spread the mortar. But Uncle William had constructed an elaborate platform with plenty of room for bricks and the pail of mortar, and space in which to stretch his great

. "I know I do. I don't like to work none too wel

day, on the pretext of advising whether the row of bricks below the roof line would hold. It was a cle

see," suggested

"You will have to take off the top

o' tottery. But I thought mebbe they'd hold. Sit down, Andy, sit do

," he said. He was searching

to do?" demand

o take in the Andrew Halloran." He wa

have to have me to help ye, Andy. Can't you jest

ndy. He was glowering at the bay

"But I don't want my mortar to freeze, and I'm kind o' 'fraid of its comin' off cold

without you," sai

you goin' to haul her up?" Un

uess." He was mumbling it to his t

atform and the pail and the blue sky above, U

the Andrew Halloran, cleaning her up and stowi

balanced it on his palm and looked at the pile of bricks. His gaze wandered to the sky. It swept the bay and came back across the moors. A look of soft happiness filled it; the thin edges of resolve melted before i

ree bricks were in place. Uncle William n

got done?" d

tfully. "Well, there's quite a pi

n't sh

own below.-Think we're goin' to have a chan

eeze inside of t

am scanned

latin' to finis

inkin' of finis

ze sought

m took up an

science was clear; and then William worked better when Andy was aroun

"I wheeled them over from the Bodet cellar-

all

king thoughtfully. "We've set by th

ep

things she used

about. "W

Mis'

"So she did. I'd f

"There was a kind of t

enthusiasm filled his eye. "I k

Benjy used to sit and toast o

mean cuss,

!" Uncle William's face beamed over the edge

hortly. "He' lick a fell

id it kind o' neat, didn't he?" His eye twinkled to his work. "'Member that time you 'borrowed' his lobs

ace was

I set a heap o' store by him. He was jest about our age-twelve year the summer they moved away. I

Andy spoke hopefully. A little gr

ully. "Now, what makes you say that, Andy? He don't hev

l enough, but it ain't any use talkin'

wing a floating cloud. "I feel as if they was kind o' near us; not touching close

d at it su

get up kind o' light in the mornin', 'cause I was goin' to see Benjy. T

a. "You was mighty thick with tha

cle William spoke thoughtf

in Andy's

s that's a good deal nicer than your own folks that you was born and brought up and have lived and qua

that's right," he said. "Now there's Harr'

. "She come from Dig

me days I feel as if I wa'n

illiam

idge-pole. The few rows of bricks set above its line gleamed red and white in the sun. "Yo

There's a moon, you know. And this is a pleasant place

to the horizon. It grew rosy red and opened softly, spreading in little flames. The glow of color spread from north to south.

m. It shone on the chimney rising, straight and firm, above the