Striking the astonished Maggie Boy with his spur, he turned her across the railroad track, down the steep embankment, and into an unfrequented lane.
"This road is just back of your garden," he said.

"Can you get through the fence if I take you there ?" "That's the way we came out," was the answer.

"See that hole where the palin's are off ?" Just as he was about to lift her down, she put one arm around his neck, and kissed him softly on the cheek.

"Good-bye, gran'fatha'," she said, in her most winning way.

"I've had a mighty nice time." Then she added, in a lower tone, "'Kuse me fo' throwin' mud on yo' coat." He held her close a moment, thinking nothing had ever before been half so sweet as the way she called him grandfather.
From that moment his heart went out to her as it had to little Tom and Elizabeth.