leaving kindly Mother 'Larkey, loving Kathleen and gentle Nora and Chris
and--yes, and Danny and Celia Jane, too.

Mrs. Mullarkey gathered him up in her arms and kissed him.

"Good-by, Jerry. You've brought good fortune to this family and put food
into the mouths of my children and clothes on their backs when I
couldn't see where they were to come from. You must love your mother
hard for all the time she has been without you--and your father, too."

"I will," Jerry promised and squeezed her neck very hard and kissed her.
Just then Danny came tumbling breathlessly downstairs and thrust a
little cloth sack, which was very heavy, into Jerry's hand.

"Here are my marbles," he said. "All thirty-two of them."

"I don't want them," said Jerry.

"Take them with you, Jerry," Mother 'Larkey urged him. "It will help
Danny to remember some things which he mustn't forget."

Jerry consulted his mother's eyes. She nodded her head and he took the
marbles. Then he shook hands with Danny and Chris and Nora and kissed
and hugged Kathleen, leaving Celia Jane till the last, because she was
still sobbing.

Celia Jane did not feel entirely forgiven because Jerry seemed to avoid
her and she abased herself before him.

"I--I'm s-s-sorry, Jerry. I'll n-n-never do it again. You ain't mad at