"
"It was because I was like his own daughter or he thought I was, that he
listened to me," said Dorothy, not wanting to claim all the praise her
father so prudently gave.
"At any rate you have the joy of knowing, daughter, that you helped a
fellow creature find the right path. That joy will never leave you."
For a few moments the two sat there in silence. Dorothy had been favored
with many opportunities of "distinguishing herself" as Tavia would say,
but this last--the real joy of helping a man save himself--this as the
major said, would never leave her.
"And all this trouble about the Ford girl?" inquired the major
presently, "has that been settled?"
"Oh, yes, indeed it has," answered Dorothy, scarcely knowing what
explanation to make. "Sarah is very hasty, and of course you know how
Tavia loves to tease."
"But it seems this was no nonsense. Mr. Ford declared he would make Mr.
Travers pay the girl's doctor bill."
"Did he really? I had not heard that. But Tavia was not to blame. Sarah
has admitted it was all a misunderstanding."
"Evidently she has not told her father that," the major replied, "for
only this morning he assured me he would give the doctor's bill into the
hands of a collector."
"Oh, that would be too bad! Tavia's folks are so poor.
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