"It's no use trying to mend it." "Jeff could have done it.

I say, Freddy, whatever did father mean ?" "I don't know.

All I know is I'll never forget dear old Jeff; shall you ?" "Rather not.

I'm going to pray for him once a day, Freddy." "All serene--so shall I." Jeffreys stole one hurried glance through the cracked timbers, and then walked away quickly and with a heart brim full.
Whenever in after days his soul needed music, he had only to call up the voices of those two little fellows in the shed as he last heard them.
Little heeded they what came of their childish words.

Little heeded they that they were helping to make a true man of the Jeff they loved, and that whatever true strength he came to possess for fighting life's battles and bearing life's burdens, he owed it beyond any one to them! He walked on rapidly and steadily for two hours, until the last lingering glow of the summer light had faded from the sky, and the lights of York behind him were lost in the night.