was useless that helped to keep us in tune, you know."

"In tune!"

"I mean, you looked as father used to look sometimes, when he
felt out of tune. And he always said there was nothing like a
walk to put him back again. I--I was feeling a little out of tune
myself to-day, and I thought, by the way you looked, that you
were, too. So I asked you to go to walk."

"Humph! Well, I--That will do, boy. No impertinence, you
understand!" And he had turned away in very obvious anger.

David, with a puzzled sorrow in his heart had started alone then,
on his walk.




CHAPTER VII

"YOU'RE WANTED--YOU'RE WANTED!"


It was Saturday night, and the end of David's third day at the
farmhouse. Upstairs, in the hot little room over the kitchen, the
boy knelt at the window and tried to find a breath of cool air
from the hills. Downstairs on the porch Simeon Holly and his wife
discussed the events of the past few days, and talked of what
should be done with David.