56/66 But I'm hoping he'll be brought up as a good Catholic. All that troubles me is what'll happen if the old beggar-man--' 'Lama, lama, my dear sir; and some of them are gentlemen in their own country.' 'The lama, then, fails to pay next year. He's a fine business head to plan on the spur of the moment, but he's bound to die some day. An' takin' a heathen's money to give a child a Christian education--' 'But he said explicitly what he wanted. As soon as he knew the boy was white he seems to have made his arrangements accordingly. |