Yet changed, as the Captain saw with some curiosity, not to lesser but to greater intentness.
"Well, Daisy ?" "Capt.

Drummond, if I tell you, I do not wish it talked about." "Certainly not!" he said suppressing a smile, and watched her while she got down from her chair and looked about among the bookshelves.
"Will you please put this on the table for me ?" she said--"I can't lift it." "A Bible!" said the Captain to himself.

"This is growing serious." But he carried the great quarto silently and placed it on the table.

It was a very large volume, full of magnificent engravings, which were the sole cause and explanation of its finding a place in Mr.Randolph's library.
He put it on the table and watched Daisy curiously, who disregarding all the pictures turned over the leaves hurriedly, till near the end of the book; then stopped, put her little finger under some words, and turned to him.

The Captain looked and read--over the little finger-- "Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ." It gave the Captain a very odd feeling.