Had he waxed sentimental she would not have gone a step of the way with him into the past, but when he was so full of glee she could take his hand and run back into it.
"But we must wait until evening," Tommy said, "until Corp is unharnessed; we must not hurt the feelings of Corp by going back to the Den without him." "How mean of me not to think of Corp!" Grizel cried; but the next moment she was glad she had not thought of him, it was so delicious to have proof that Tommy was more loyal.

"But we can't turn back the clock, can we, Corp ?" she said to the fourth of the conspirators, to which Corp replied, with his old sublime confidence, "He'll find a way." And at first it really seemed as if Tommy had found a way.

They did not go to the Den four in a line or two abreast--nothing so common as that.

In the wild spirits that mastered him he seemed to be the boy incarnate, and it was always said of Tommy by those who knew him best that if he leaped back into boyhood they had to jump with him.

Those who knew him best were with him now.