This work would have set him on his feet.

Those were his very words--and he was getting so easy in his mind, too--and we had planned so many things!" "But you can still go to Newport," Jack pleaded.

"We will be here some months yet, and--" "Oh--but I won't go a step anywhere.

I could not leave him now--that is, not as long as I can help him." "But aren't you going to the Fosters' and Aunt Felicia's ?" She might not be, but it was good all the same to hear her deny it.
"Not to anybody's!" she replied, with an emphasis that left no doubt in his mind.
Jack's heart gave a bound.
"But you were going if we went to Morfordsburg," he persisted.

He was determined to get at the bottom of all his misgivings.