When he came back, he was a transformed man.

A new light was in his eye, a new elasticity in all his movements.
"I cannot tell you about it, Jim," he said; "at least I cannot tell you now; but a great burden has been lifted from my life.

I have never spoken of this to you, or to anybody; but the first cruel wound that the world ever gave me has been healed by a touch." "It takes a woman to do them things," said Jim.

"I knowed when ye gin up the little woman, as was free from what happened about an hour arter, that ye was firm' low an' savin' yer waddin'.

Oh, ye can't fool me, not much!" "What do you think of that, Jim ?" said Benedict, smiling, and handing him a check for five hundred dollars that the letter had inclosed.
Jim looked it over and read it through with undisguised astonishment.
"Did she gin it to ye ?" he inquired.
"Yes." "An' be ye a goin' to keep it ?" "Yes, I'm going to keep it." Jim was evidently doubtful touching the delicacy both of tendering and receiving such a gift.
"If that thing had come to me from the little woman," said he, "I should think she was gittin' oneasy, an' a little dubersome about my comin' to time.