The Mountain Girl by Emma Payne Erskine Chapter 23 Page 3

very — or I would not have brought him to you.”

“Oh, no, no, I’m not thinking of Adam, bless you, no.” The doctor always called his little namesake Adam. “I’m thinking of her — the little girl you left behind you. Yes — yes. Of her.”

“She’s not so little now, Doctor; she’s tall — tall enough to be beautiful.”

“I remember her, — slight — slight little creature, all eyes and hair, all soul and mind. Now what are you going to do with her, eh?”

“What is she going to do with me, rather! I’ll go back to her as soon as I dare leave the boy.”

“But, man alive! what —