190 LTistory of Gutta-Percha Willie.

 

‘As soon as he began to wrap it about her, Agnes
said, thoughtfully—

“Somebody did that to me. before—not long
ago—I remember: it was the angel in my
dream.” ,

When Willie put the corner over her face, she
said, “He did that too!” and when he took her
in his arms, she said, “He did that too! How
funny you should do just what the angel did in
my dream !”

Willie ran about with her here and there through |
the ruins, into the house, up and down the stairs,
and through the garden in many directions, until
he was satisfied he must have thoroughly bewildered
her as to whereabouts they were, and then at last
sped with her up the stair to the fork of the elm-
tree, There he threw back the shawl, and told her
to look,

To see her first utterly bewildered expression—
then the slow glimmering dawn of intelligence, as
she began to understand where she was—next the
gradual rise of light in her face as if it came there
from some spring down below, until it broke out in
a smile all over it, when at length she perceived
that this was what he had been working at, and
why he wouldn’t have her with him—gave Willie
all the pleasure he had hoped for—quite satisfied
him, and made him count his labour well re-
warded.