With "S

and the baby, the squatter girl had carried to the sick woman some little offering to gladden her lonely existence. As Tess walked along the rocks, the image of Frederick Graves persistently pervaded her thoughts. Before the going do

ision of Teola Graves. A lonely little heart twist followed for the dead baby who had been born in her hut. This day she did not hesitate

riends, she spied "Satisfied" seated on the bench near the doorwa

omin' soon, brat," wa

in' bread," Tess announced, si

s pipe to one co

thanked her, puffing. "Me an'

him with affect

too," she smiled. "I air glad

his pipe. Then he slowly knocked the ashes from its

s uns just plumb lately made up our minds both them kids was too goo

e flashed a radiant smi

air happy in Heaven; Ben Letts air a singin' 'roun

f Longman slowly

't," he answered, moodily, and his

the brat with the uneven, discordant tones of her voice; but she knew, too, the

atisfied' darli

ly, "I heard 'im singin', 'Did ye ever go into an Irishman's

angels up there-" She looked upward, a solemn expression on her young face-"angels what Jesus keeps

and slipped an arm around

fish an' beans. Up in Heaven they don't do nothin' but dance around the throne an'

. "Will ye tell ma about it like ye did me, Tessie? M

ed her cu

assured him; "but, 'Satisfied,' I

an no

ethin' too, brat," he said. "How

kled like the

arnin' me to sew, too. Why, I git my five dollars every Sunday jest as reg'lar as Sunday comes. I ain't ne

giggle to which Lon

lied. "There ain't nothin' li

y fish much now, only 'nough fer us an' fer Profe

," sighed Longman,

he says he mustn't work. Now I got my singin' he don't have to.... Why, 'Satisfied,' I air savin' 'nough money to get a new bed an'

thin arms to fall around

he returned admiringly. "

ed a mome

ack mentally to her former unspoken q

an no

dered-young Eb's father. Made som

a while now," observ

oulders moved several

too, ain't he?... Funny how he done it!... Bigger men'n him stay there all thei

sympathy in the

hey don't," she

urtive expression shot i

git married, Tes

k her red cur

the time yet," she parried

of the student nowadays,

f she could only tell her old friend that that very night she'd belong to F

him, 'Satisfied,

s movement with one h

long time," he stammered, almost inaudibly. "

isfied'," asser

udent Graves," e

r lowered lids and a slow, deep scarl

nded, dropping again to the bench

rd to say what he must with the you

ther girl," he barked presently

e took up the basket. Some gossiping

at tongue told ye that only wanted to make ye feel sad fer me." She paused, then turned, but whirled back. "Wh

uick-spoken sympathy. "Only ma and me thought

asn't she going to be married to the student that night! And how many, many times Fr

tells me so," she flashed forth tempestuously. "Now I ai

ayed her w

ad at me, b

d forth impet

ied,' I air a cussed brat to be swearin' when Frederick sa

ith his tongue. Moodily he watched the bounding youthful figure until it disappe

h, brat?" asked Longman, in a cuddli

es of the old fisherman, of the lonely, bereaved old man, that sad

ngin' in Heaven. She hadn't thought Ben Letts might be there with Myry an' the b

uatter once more, Tess