I have got now good employment in London and I'm even reading up Law.

We will talk of that by and bye but I tell you now--from my heart--I am a different David to the one you knew, and you shall never regret taking me back." Both father and son were crying now, for emotion especially in Wales is catching.

But the father laughed through his tears; and incoherently thanked God for the return of the prodigal--a fine upstanding lad--whole and sound.

"No taint about _you_, Davy, _I'll_ be bound.

Why your voice alone shows you've been a clean liver.