Some perception of what Harry's sensations must have been during the last six months came to him as he sat there with the little girl's arm about him.Harry had come home and discovered his child,his Jewel.Afrown gathered on the broker's brow as he realized the hours of vain regret his son must have suffered for those lost years of the child's life.
"Served him right,served him perfectly right!""What grandpa?"
The question made Mr.Evringham aware that the indignant words had been muttered above his breath.
"I was thinking of your father,"he replied."Has he learned these things that your mother has taught you?""Oh yes,"with soft eagerness;"father is learning everything."Jewel saw her grandfather's frown and she lowered her voice almost to a whisper."Don't feel sorry about father,grandpa.He says he's the happiest man in the world.Mother didn't find out about God till after father had gone to California,or he wouldn't have gone;and for a long time she didn't know where he was,and I was only beginning to walk around,so I couldn't help her;but when I got bigger I had father's picture,and we used to talk to it every day,and at last mother knew that Divine Love would bring father back;and pretty soon he began to write to her,and he said he couldn't come home because he felt so sorry,and he was going to the war.So then mother and Iprayed a great deal every day,and we knew father would be taken care of.And then mother kept writing to him not to be sorry,because error was nothing and the child of God could always have his right place,and everything like that,and at last the war was over and he came home."Jewel paused.
Mr.Evringham wondered what she was seeing with that far-away look.
Presently she turned to him with the smile of irresistible sweetness--Harry's smile--and a surprising fullness came in the broker's throat.