"You'd better get up an' go to bed now, instead of sleepin' in your chair," she said, imperatively; and Caleb obeyed, staggering, half-dazed, across the floor into the bedroom.

Deborah was only a few years younger than her husband, but she had retained her youthful vigor in much greater degree.

She never felt the drowsiness of age stealing over her at nightfall.

Indeed, oftentimes her senses seemed to gain in alertness as the day wore on, and many a night she was up and at work long after all the other members of her family were in bed.

There came at such times to Deborah Thayer a certain peace and triumphant security, when all the other wills over which her own held contested sway were lulled to sleep, and she could concentrate all her energies upon her work.