Judy
ne, then sat down discons
e said,
able silence, Anne asked,
looked
t, "they thought
as China?" question
id Nannie with a superior air; "h
me any preserved gi
sheepish, as the memory of certa
going to give up. I am going to be a sai
up and fixed him
sea?" she ask
ried
r did y
altim
wouldn't
up all my money, so
ver been on
Have
ther was in
near to this fas
you tell me," said Judy, and sank b
ng to run away any more-he is going to stay here, and
of gentle girlhood, but in Judy he now found a kindred spirit, a girl with a daring that more
uncertainly. "I guess I can
Anne. "You ought not
said Judy, but there was a
was ready to be forgiven. To eat of the fatted calf-if he should be so lucky. If not, to eat hum
lace like this all his life," he said, to
e, quietly, "but if you had seen you
mmy lowere
ered, huskily, "po
And now he turned his back on
e in on Anne's story. He c
began, then sto
laimed, "hello,
" said Tomm
on the high seas by
to be," said Tom
. We have missed you a
im on the shoulder
Judy?" h
ung lady in the corner. "Tommy w
't have a thing but some mustard and red pepper, and I was
o laugh, but s
he said, "I a
, you'r
t I
across the field when
es
sed Launcelot, "
y, and turned h
ed down at her
ree where you fa
Judy's shoulder wa
uck by lightning
facing him now, brea
." His face w
softly, "oh, and I m
es
aided, trailed its dark length over her should
, nervously, "what a baby, La
ime, little girl, and don't get fussy," wa
nd the smile she gave him
raining," said A
ftly, bringing with it the fresh smell of the
t; "he stayed in the carriage, and Perkins put up t
oom for me to ride home?" To
three seats. Pretty long tramp you had, didn't y
ith a quiver in his vo
stioned Launc
n't had a square meal for a week,"
y. "Oh, Tommy," she asked in a str
ye on him, and was forced to contin
ike that," he asserted. "Suppos
d Amelia, "with bread
s," ventur
ark young lady on the hay; "
e shipwrecks,"
t half as interesting
sert is
is such an old story
soe
oul had been fired by the thought of a life of adventure on the deep. He had talked to the little gir
" he said, dolefully, "if there ain't any p
smell of it, and the wind, and the wide blue water and the wide blue sky. It is so
ch and began to gather
at she did it to
her emotion. "Yes, I do
et I could find a trea
get your tobacco and your grog, and be frozen and stiff in the winter storms and hot and weary in the summer ones. But if you really loved the sea
y, open-mouthed
d face and at the trembling hands that could scarcely f
nant Tommy, switching h
was deep in the argument
runaway something to eat, and thereby tempered justice with mercy. And as Tommy had expected the scoldi
l?" asked the Judg
ked her hand into his, "only I
t go right home. Perkins and I will sit on the front seat, and
down on the floor at the back, with their feet on
shook h
t here," she said. "He wants
lone and unseen by those in the front of the wagon, he opene
hey ain't much, but I thought
and white shells, a starfis
ach," said Tommy, "and I th
you to think of me," sai
my. "There was some lovely jewelry made out of
Tommy," said Anne, with appreciation
kerchief, and then she folded her hands in her lap and to
ows were flying in a straight black line to the woods to roost. As Anne talked on, the firef
d Tommy, as the lights began to twinkle in the
-he was awfully angry-but you
as unburdening his soul. It was so easy to tell things to gentle
go again," said little Anne,
tiously. He didn't want
teasing laugh. Then h
e's
here for aw
y," said Anne, wit
way, and the lights from the big hous
find a treasure isl