They answered a little way off.

"Come in this minute, and get your suppers," she called again, and turning back without noticing Andy, left the door open for her children.

The poor cast-adrift looked in and saw light and food and comfort--a home that made him heartsick with longing, mean and disordered and miserable as it would have appeared to your eyes and mine, reader.

The two children, coming at their mother's call, found him standing just on the threshold gazing in wistfully; and as they entered, he, drawn by their attraction, went in also.

Then, turning toward her children, the mother saw Andy.
"Out of this!" she cried, in quick anger, raising her hand and moving hastily toward the child.