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I heard him plead like a lawyer and argue his case straight. I lent a hand
when his eloquence failed, got him his deserts, then let him go! I did
have an impulse to keep him. I did call after him. But he disappeared."
"Douglas, we can find him!" she comforted.
"I haven't found either of the others I realized I'd have been interested
in, after I let them slip," he answered, "while this boy was both of them
rolled into one, and ten more like them."
"Oh Douglas! I'm so sorry! But maybe some other man has already found
him," said Leslie.
"No. You can always pick the brothered boys," said Douglas. "The first
thing that happens to them is a clean-up and better clothing; then an air
of possessed importance. No man has attached this one."
"Douglas, describe him," she commanded. "I'll watch for him. How did he
look? What was the trouble?"
"One at a time," cautioned the man. "He was a little chap, a white, clean,
threadbare little chap, with such a big voice, so wonderfully intoned, and
such a bigger principle, for which he was fighting.


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