And he would not have been so very much surprised if he had vanished, taking with him in some strange fashion his newly discovered son.

But it was that son who now kept him there; and in the simplest fashion he stayed on, nursing the sick man, who recovered very slowly.

A month passed by after the Brother Man had first found the lost at Philip's house, and he was still a guest there.

Within that month great events crowded in upon the experience of Mr.Strong.To tell them all would be to write another story.

Sometimes into men's lives, under certain conditions of society, or of men's own mental and spiritual relation to certain causes of action, time, as reckoned by days or weeks, cuts no figure.