So many boys and girls have called me that, that I'm fond of it.
And I like to have you use it. But I'm much obliged to you, David. Now
I guess we'll say good night. Hey?"
The child's face cleared; he drew a deep breath as if he had
accomplished something. Then he said good night, and trudged off to
bed. Dr. Lavendar looked after him tenderly.
CHAPTER X
April brightened into May before David came to live at the Stuffed
Animal House. Dr. Lavendar had his own reasons for the delay, which he
did not share with anybody, but they resulted in a sort of intimacy,
which Helena, eager for the child, could not refuse.
"He needs clothes," Dr. Lavendar put her off; "I can't let him visit
you till Mary gets his wardrobe to rights."
"Oh, let me get his little things."
--Now, who would have supposed that Dr. Lavendar was so deep! To begin
with, he was a man, and an old man, at that; and with never a chick or
a child of his own. How did he know what a child's little clothes are
to a woman?--"Well," he said, "suppose you make him a set of night-
drawers."
Helena's face fell. "I don't know how to sew. I thought I could buy
what he needed."
"No; he has enough bought things, but if you will be so kind, my dear,
as to make--"
"I will!" she promised, eagerly, and Dr. Lavendar said he would bring
David up to be measured.
Her sewing was a pathetic blunder of haste and happiness; it brought
Dr.
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