9. AND MOSES BROUGHT OUT ALL THE RODS FROM BEFORE THE LORD UNTO
ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL: AND THEY LOOKED, AND TOOK EVERY MAN
HIS ROD.
10. AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, BRING AARON'S ROD AGAIN BEFORE
THE TESTIMONY TO BE KEPT FOR A TOKEN AGAINST THE REBELS; AND THOU
SHALT QUITE TAKE AWAY THEIR MURMURINGS FROM ME, THAT THEY DIE
NOT.
"Oh! Aunt Boynton!" cried the boy, "I love my name after I've
heard about the almond rod!
Aren't you proud that it's Uncle's name that was written on the
one that blossomed?"
He turned swiftly to find that his aunt's knitting had slipped on
the floor; her nerveless hands drooped by her side as if there
were no life in them, and her head had fallen against the back of
her chair. The boy was paralyzed with fear at the sight of her
closed eyes and the deathly pallor of her face. He had never seen
her like this before, and Ivory was away. He flew for a bottle of
spirit, always kept in the kitchen cupboard for emergencies, and
throwing wood on the fire in passing, he swung the crane so that
the tea-kettle was over the flame. He knew only the humble
remedies that he had seen used here or there in illness, and
tried them timidly, praying every moment that he might hear
Ivory's step.
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