[Out of the Triangle by Mary E. Bamford]@TWC D-Link bookOut of the Triangle CHAPTER VIII 74/182
To-morrow the pay would come.
Tio Diego tried lamely to help Arturo wash. Tia Marta was feeling better, and had just declared her intention of washing, when Arturo suddenly forsook the tub and dropped beside her. "Me malo, malo!" (bad) he sobbed. He cried bitterly, and told tia Marta about the watch-chain. Old tia Marta looked pityingly at her shamefaced nephew. "Poor child!" she said, "thou art young." But when next day the school teacher asked Arturo the reason of his absence from school the previous afternoon, and he had confessed the whole story, the teacher said, "Arturo, it is more beautiful to have a heart of love toward others than it is to wear a watch-chain even of real gold.
Will you remember that ?" Arturo promised, and the teacher said to herself: "I will see that tia Marta does not come to such straits again." COMALE'S REVENGE The Waves splashed on the bold rocks that guard the little harbor of Colombo on the southwest shore of the island of Ceylon.
Groves of palm trees looked down on the one-story houses of the town.
Upon a rock outside of Colombo stood a barefoot boy, his dark eyes gazing toward the tropically green mountains of the island.
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