"You've helped us lots.

Thank you!" In David's heart was a wild desire to lay at his good man's feet all of his shining gold-pieces as payment for this timely aid.

But caution held him back: it seemed that only in stores did money pay; outside it branded one as a thief! Alone with his father, David faced once more his problem.

Where should they go for the night?
Plainly his father could not walk far.

He had begun to talk again, too,--low, half-finished sentences that David could not understand, and that vaguely troubled him.