sure there's nothing about Jesus' sailors in the Bible; but I'll ask
mother, and then I'll tell you. I must go home now. Good-bye. We're
going to be friends?'

'Yes, we're going to be friends,' she repeated; and then away they
scampered in different directions, Nancy calling out, like a true little
woman, 'But I shan't really love you till you give me your button.'




CHAPTER V

First Victories


'Please, sir, may I speak to you?'

Mr. Upton was coming out of church after a choir practice, when Teddy
accosted him.

He smiled when he saw the boy. 'You may walk home with me and speak to me
as much as you like.'

And so they sauntered up the shady lane, the old rector with his head
bent and his hands crossed behind him, and the boy all eager excitement
and motion, with suppressed importance in his tone.

'I want you to give me a name for my enemy, please, sir.'