"Now that you have shed your burden you will grow
stronger and life will be all joy, for Waitstill will come to us
soon and we can shake off these miseries and be a happy family
once more."
"It is she who has helped me most to find the thread; pouring
sympathy and strength into me, nursing me, loving me, because she
loved my wonderful son. Oh! how blest among women I am to have
lived long enough to see you happy!"
And as Ivory kissed his mother and blew out the candle, she
whispered to herself: "Even so, Lord Jesus, come quickly!"
XXXIV
THE DEACON'S WATERLOO
MRS. MASON'S welcome to Waitstill was unexpectedly hearty--much
heartier than it would have been Six months before, when she
regarded Mrs. Boynton as little less than a harmless lunatic, of
no use as a neighbor; and when she knew nothing more of Ivory
than she could gather by his occasional drive or walk past her
door with a civil greeting. Rodman had been until lately the only
member of the family for whom she had a friendly feeling; but all
that had changed in the last few weeks, when she had been allowed
to take a hand in the Boyntons' affairs. As to this newest
development in the life of their household, she had once been
young herself, and the veriest block of stone would have become
human when the two lovers drove up to the door and told their
exciting story.
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