"
"I'll pay long before that, if I live," cried Dick earnestly. "I don't
mean to beg my way, either, if I can only get work going along."
"That's right, lad, work your passage out; but anyways this half-crown
won't come amiss--we'll put it down in the ledger with the rest of the
good debt accounts. You'll look out for your uncle--a foine dark man
with brown eyes like your own, only maybe not so shiny. Give my best
respecks to him, and tell him I persuaded you to get clear away from
the villains."
Dick took out his pocket Bible to read his chapter with a glad feeling
of security. He would never need to hide it from the Fowley's again.
"Read it out, me boy, read it. There's good words in it, whatever the
praste may say." And Dick read the first chapter of Joshua, and his
voice rang out triumphantly in the words, "Be strong and of a good
courage, be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed, for the Lord thy God
is with thee, whithersoever thou goest."
"Shure, them's good marching orders," said Paddy thoughtfully. "A body
could even get past the 'Brown Bear' o' nights if he thought of them."
"It's easy to be Lionheart when the Lord God is along," said Dick
wistfully. "I _wish_ you wouldn't go in any more, Paddy, because I
love you so, and God wouldn't maybe care to go into such places, and
you'd have to leave Him outside.
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