The King's servants By Hesba Stretton Author:Sarah Smith Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: "It's earnest-money," I said. "The Lord will-know when to give us the rest." So we bid Pippin good-bye, not without tears even in Transome's eyes, though he w... more »as growing too old to shed tears at little things. And I stood to watch him, in spite of the searching bitter wind blowing over the brow of the hill, as he ran down the street, until he was fairly out of my sight. That night I strung Jp Willie's chair again to the ceiling. CHAPTER IV. A TERRIBLE BLOW. NO, such another child never came again to my school. I had good scholars and bad ones, and they were constantly changing—old ones leaving and fresh ones coming in : but never one like Pippin. Not one of them had his hungry brain and loving heart. He had been to me something like the beloved John was to our Lord ; and now he was gone, all the others seemed commonplace and at a distance from me. They could not creep into my heart as Pippin had done. He did not come back at the end of three months.We never even heard of him. He was little more than a babe in years, and children cannot remember as old folks remember their friends. Mrs. Brown told me, when I made a purpose journey to inquire after him, that the lady had written to say he was safe and quite content, but she did not wish him to have any communication with his former home. Soon after that Mrs. Brown went away to live in Manchester, so we could ask for no more news about Pippin. I had, at times, an unsatisfied yearning when I thought of him; but, as years slipped away, I only recollected him as a child who was dearest to me, next to my own Willie. Transome's rheumatism did not mend as he grew older and more infirm ; and the burden of earning the rent as well as the living fell upon me. But times were very prosperous in the town just then, and trade was in...« less