lko read how the Lord Jesus spoke to him while he sat in
the sycamore tree and invited Himself as his guest.

"Uncle Filina," suddenly Palko interrupted, when he came to the words
of the Lord, 'The Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was
lost'--"If you simply do just like Zaccheus; and say to the Lord
Jesus, 'This day is salvation come to this house,' that would be
first, the house of your heart and then the whole hut. Uncle, I beg of
you, receive Him today. Zaccheus received Him at once with joy, and
how much greater joy did he find afterward when the Lord Jesus forgave
him all his sins."

Surprised, the doctor looked at the strange boy and also at Bacha who
arose and without a word entered the hut. Then Petrik noticed the
guest; both the boys ran to welcome him and each one wanted to be the
first to tell him who Palko was and what he was doing among them. The
Doctor liked Palko, like everyone else who came in contact with him.
Then the boys found out why the doctor had come that day. He wanted to
find a cottage near the hut where he could place one of his patients
for a week, whom only quietness and air and sun could heal.

"Palko, do you hear?" whispered Petrik, but so loud that all could
hear him. "That cottage of yours is empty, your father will not come
for six weeks, and you could live here with us; that would be a good
place for the lady."

"What did you say, boy?" asked the doctor.

Ondrejko began to explain that Lesina had a cottage at the very foot
of the "Old Hag's Rock," where the path led to town, and that at the
present it was empty.

"Do you think, Palko," asked the doctor, "that your father would agree
to lend us the cabin, if it would suit us?"

"Why would he not agree?" said the boy with shining eyes. "Does not
the Lord Jesus say, 'I was sick, and ye visited Me?' If the cabin
suits you I will give you the key. Just let the sick one come."

It was too late in the evening to go to see the place; so the boys
prepared to go with the doctor early in the morning to the cottage.

This time the doctor did not sleep with the boys in the hayloft,
because he spoke a long time with Filina. When Filina went to look at
the boys, as it was his custom to do every evening, he stood above
them a long time in deep thought, then he carefully covered Ondrejko,
and sadly stroked his forehead, gently, as if he was very sorry for
the boy. But why? Did he not look very lovely, somewhat browned from
the s