Dainton remarked softly, and
Dick answered her smile with one as bright.
"You're right, wife, it strikes me God has been guiding Dick here right
to our door, and I can see he thinks so, too."
"He could stop here, couldn't he mother, till Teddy comes back from
grandma's, and have his little room?" said Nellie, eagerly. "Then Pat
and Kitty could quite make friends, and have such fun together."
"That's not a bad notion, pet, if mother is willing."
And Mrs. Dainton at once said "Yes," and so Dick found himself with
home and food and friends, before he had been an hour in Ironboro'.
How wonderfully God had answered his prayers!
"Hulloa, you young hopeful, what do you mean by sleeping all through
dinner, and then waking just as we've cleared the dishes?" And Mr.
Dainton stooped to the cradle by the hearth, where a bonny six-month's
old baby had wakened with a cry.
"What, fretty, little man? Those teeth do bother you, don't they? And
I can't stop to take you now."
"Let me have him!" cried Dick, quickly, holding out his arms. "I've
had a lot to do with babies."
And to their great surprise, baby Jack went to him at once with a
contented chuckle, and settled down as if he had known him always.
"I like that, now," said the father as he took his cap to go.
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