But what else can I think, Mr.
Bartram, after all that's gone on in me, an' what He's said Himself ?" "Very well; then, if He is so powerful and cares so much for you, I suppose He brings you more work and better prices than any one else in your business ?" Sam did not reply to this at once, but after a while he said,-- "It amounts to the same thing: He makes me work harder than I ever knowed how to do before.

That brings me more money an' gives me a hope of gettin' along better after a while." "Oh, well, you have a family,--quite a large family, I believe.

Does He do as much for your wife and children as for you ?" "Whatever He's doin' for me is done for all of us, Mr.Bartram." "Just so.

But do you mean to say that what you're making enables you to do for your family all that you should ?" The cobbler's face contracted, under the shade he wore over his eyes.
An evil smile overspread the lawyer's countenance.

A little time passed; the discussion was becoming sport,--such sport as the angler feels when a wounded fish, a hundred times smaller than he, is struggling and writhing in agony on his hook.
"You don't seem certain about it, Sam," the tormentor finally said.
"Mr.Bartram," the cobbler answered in a little while, "what He done for me came about so quiet an' unknown like that I don't know what he may be doin' for the wife an' children.