Give him the two letters, John.

Let me have them to-morrow, Doctor.
Good-bye," and they rode on to the mills.
"It is a pity, John, Josiah gave no address," said Penhallow,--"a childlike man, intelligent, and with some underlying temper of the old African barbarian." The summer days ran on with plenty of work for John and without incidents of moment, until the rector went away as was his habit the first of August, more moody than usual.

If the rectory were finished, he would go there in September, and Mrs.Ann had written to him about the needed furniture.
On August 20th that lady wrote from Cape May that she must go home, and Leila that her aunt was well but homesick.

The Squire, who missed her greatly, unreluctantly yielded, and on August 25th she was met at the station by Penhallow and John.

To the surprise of both, she had brought Leila, as her school was not to begin until September 10th.
"My dear James," cried Mrs.Ann, "it is worth while to have been away to learn how good it is to get home again.