? ? ? ? Then the passages were tinged with a subdued happiness that was even sadder than the rest.
? ? ? ? One entry showed an almost hopeful spirit.
? ? ? ? To-day our little boy is six months old. He is sitting in Alice's lap beside the table where I am writing--a happy, healthy, perfect child.
? ? ? ? Somehow, even against all reason, I seem to see him a grown man, taking his father's place in the world--the second John Clayton--and bringing added honors to the house of Greystoke.
? ? ? ? There--as though to give my prophecy the weight of his endorsement--he has grabbed my pen in his chubby fists and with his inkbegrimed little fingers has placed the seal of his tiny finger prints upon the page.
? ? ? ? And there, on the margin of the page, were the partially blurred imprints of four wee fingers and the outer half of the thumb.
? ? ? ? When D'Arnot had finished the diary the two men sat in silence for some minutes.
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