[Santa Claus’s Partner by Thomas Nelson Page]@TWC D-Link bookSanta Claus’s Partner CHAPTER XV 4/6
"Wonder I never took it in before!" Ten minutes later Livingstone was seated at the table with an appetite like a schoolboy's. It was the happiest meal Livingstone had eaten in many a long day; for, all alone as he was, he was not alone.
Thought-of-others sat at the board and a cheery companion it is. "Tell the laundress to be sure and bring her children around to-morrow, and be sure you make them have a good time," he said to James, as he rose from the table.
James bowed. "Yes, sir." "And ascertain where policeman, No.
268, is to be found to-morrow.
I want to send a contribution to make a good slide for some boys on his beat." James bowed again, his eyes somewhat wider than before. As Livingstone mounted the stair, though he was sensible of fatigue it was the fatigue of the body, so delicious to those who have known that of the mind.
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