We shall always be glad to see him." Here Phil took his cap and prepared to depart.
"Good-by," he said in English.

"I thank you all for your kindness." "Will you come again ?" said Mrs.Hoffman.

"We shall be glad to have you." "Do come," pleaded Jimmy, who had taken a fancy to the dark-eyed Italian boy, whose brilliant brown complexion contrasted strongly with his own pale face and blue eyes.
These words gave Phil a strange pleasure.

Since his arrival in America he had become accustomed to harsh words and blows; but words of kindness were strangers to his ears.

For an hour he forgot the street and his uninviting home, and felt himself surrounded by a true home atmosphere.
He almost fancied himself in his Calabrian home, with his mother and sisters about him--in his home as it was before cupidity entered his father's heart and impelled him to sell his own flesh and blood into slavery in a foreign land.