CHAPTER VI.
THE GRASSHOPPER A BURDEN.
It was some time before the full meaning of Susan's letter penetrated to her father's brain; but when it did, he was not at first altogether pained by it.

True, it was both a grief and disappointment to think that his daughter, instead of returning to him, was already on her way across the sea to a very distant land.

But as this came slowly to his mind, there came also the thought that there would now be no one to divide with him the treasure committed to his charge.

The little child would belong to him alone.

They might go on still, living as they had done these last three days, and being all in all to one another.