ir back into the shadow? why, even, did papa's voice tremble now
and then as he went on, and caught the eye first of one and then another
of his listeners?

That night he told my story--not as I have told it to you. There was
not much about Mr Drift in the story he told, and a great deal less
about himself than there might have been. But as he went on these
children crowded round me and looked with awe upon my battered body, and
read with reverence those quaintly-scratched initials, and as they
followed me in imagination from one master to another, and from one
peril to the next, ending up with the famous battle before Lucknow, they
forgot I was old and ugly, and I gradually appeared to their little eyes
one of the greatest treasures which their father's house contained.

"And here he lies in my hand, children," concluded papa; "and if you
love him as much as I do you must be very fond of him. And now, good-
night, all of you."

THE END.

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