Holworth wished him to come and rest at the
Vicarage, but he was very anxious to get home, and after he had taken
a little food, Andrew Luck offered to share with Ben and Rusha's
husband the carrying him back between them on an elbow chair.
This pleased him, and he looked up to Andrew and said, "You are in
the same mind as long ago?"
"I never found anyone else I could lay my mind to, since my poor
Kitty," said Andrew.
"She will come to you--soon," said Stead. "She'll have a sore heart,
but you will be good to her."
"That I will. And little Bess and Kate shall come and tell her how
they want her."
Stead smiled and his lips moved in thankfulness.
"And if Ben would come with her," added Andrew, "I'd be a brother to
him."
"Parson wants Ben," said Stead. "He says he can make a scholar of
him, and maybe a parson, and it will not be so lonesome in the
vicarage."
"And your farm?"
"Rusha and her man take that. They have saved enough to build the
house. Yes, all is well. It is great peace and thankfulness.
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