"Well, as I was sayin', there I am and all I can see through the fog is
one 'a these here big lighted signs down the street with 'George's Place'
on it, and a pitcher of a big glass of beer. Me to George's, at once. When
Levy himself finds me there, about daylight, I'm tryin' to tell a gang of
Silases how it all happened and chokin' up every time so's I have to have
another.

"Well, of course, we break up next day. Kelly tells me, after he gits
right again, that little Patsy was saved by havin' one 'a these here
scapulars on--he shows it to me hanging around the kid's neck, inside his
clothes. He says little Joseph must 'a left his off, or he'd 'a' been
saved, too. He showed me a piece in one 'a these little religious books
that says there was nothing annoyed the devil like a scapular--that a man
can't be burned or done dirt to in no way if he wears one. I says it's a
pity the Prof. didn't have one on, but Kelly says they won't work for
Protestants. But I don't know--I never _purtended_ to be good on these
propositions of religious matters. And there wasn't any chance of findin'
the kid to prove if Kelly had it right or not.

"But the Prof. he was certainly a great boy for puttin' up three-sheets
about his own two kids; anybody that would listen--friend or
stranger--made no difference to _him_. He starred 'em to anybody, you
understan'--what corkers they was, and all like that. It seemed like
Kelly's havin' two kids also kind 'a touched on his feelin's. Honest, I
ain't ever got so worked up over anything before in me whole life."

When this person had gone the old man called the two boys to his room and
prayed with them; keeping the younger to sit with him a long time
afterward, as if feeling that his was the heavier heart.