The mother rose feebly on her elbow to reassure him.
"'Tis Captain Girnway, laddie.

Have no alarm--he has befriended us.

But for him we should have been put out two days ago, without shelter and without care.

He let us be housed here until you should come." There was a knock at the door, but Joel stood with his back to it.

The words of Seth Wright were running roughshod through his mind.