look after your coffee for you, and it's all the same, you know, so you
do it in the name of a disciple."

Will Tode ever forget the feeling of solemn joy with which he finally
turned away from the dear little old lady's door? He had really talked
with one of those who knew the Lord, and he was to see her every day,
two or three times a day, and perhaps she knew things that he did not;
about Habakkuk--like enough. "She knew about that bottle business as
well as I did," he said gleefully, as he flew back to his dry-goods box.
Such delightful arrangements as he made with her, too!--elegant cakes
she was to make him, better than any that could be bought at the baker's
he was sure, though he had called there on his way for the dry-goods
box, and made what he considered a very fine bargain with him.
Altogether it was a very busy day; he had never flown around more
industriously at the hotel than he did on this first day of business for
himself. He dined on crackers and cheese, and missed, as little as he
could help, the grand dinner which would have been sure to fall to his
share at his old quarters, and which he hardly understood that he had
given up for conscience' sake. "There now," he said, with a final
chuckle of satisfaction, just as the twilight was beginning to fall,
"I'm fixed all snug and fine--by to-morrow morning, bright and early,
I'll be ready for business!" Then suddenly he dived his hands into his
pockets, and gave a low, long, perplexed whistle--then gave vent to his
new idea in words:

"Where in the name of all that's funny and ridiculous, be I going to
spend the time 'tween this and to-morrow morning? Just as true as
you're alive and hearty, Tode Mall, I never once thought of that idea
till this blessed minute--did you?

"Whatever is to be did! I've slept, to be sure, in lots of places, on
the steps, and in barrels, and I ain't no ways discomflusticated; but
then, you see, after a fellow has slept on a bed for a spell, why, he
has a kind of a hankering _after_ a bed to sleep on some more. Hold on,
though! why don't I board? That's the way men do when they go into
business. Tode, you're green, _very_ green, I'm afraid, not to think of
that before. Course I'll board! I'll go right straight down to the old
lady, and order rooms."

But the old lady shook her head, and looked troubled. "You see," said
she, "I ain't got but one bed for spare, and I've got a boy. I've got
two of 'em; but they don't sleep at