This officer at once showed a desirable
interest in the case. He put on his blue coat that he might listen to the
whole story in a proper figure, and then he took down the main points on
the slate, and said that they would send word round to the other stations
in the city, and the boy's parents could hardly help hearing of him that
night.
Returned home, Frank gave his news, and then he and Mrs. Sallie went up to
look at the lost child as he slept. The sumptuous diet to which he had
confined himself from the first seemed to agree with him perfectly, for he
slept unbrokenly, and apparently without a consciousness of his woes. On a
chair lay his clothes, in a dusty little pathetic heap; they were well-
kept clothes, except for the wrong his wanderings had done them, and they
showed a motherly care here and there, which it was not easy to look at
with composure. The spectators of his sleep both thought of the curious
chance that had thrown this little one into their charge, and considered
that he was almost as completely a gift of the Unknown as if he had been
following a steamer in another planet, and had thence dropped into their
yard.
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