Rollin; "I keep a little boat
down there under the bush, and I happen to have the key of the boat here
in my pocket. It looks awfully tempting, doesn't it?"
I had always been passionately fond of out-door life, and prided myself
in having acquired no little skill at the oar. We were out on the painted
lake, and I was rowing the light boat, and taking much selfish enjoyment
out of the scene around me, when I became conscious that the fisherman
was leaning far forward from his seat in the boat, addressing me in a low
tone.
"To discuss a topic appropriate to the day, Miss Hungerford: I suppose
you've read about that fellow who was looking for the pearl of great
price, haven't you?--that is, as I take it, you know, it was something
that was going to be of more value to him than anything else in the
world,--well, now, I believe that every man thinks he's going to be lucky
enough to fall in with something of that sort some day, don't you?"
Mr. Rollin's tone was unusually serious and even slightly embarrassed. I
looked up with curious surprise from my dreamy observation of the water.
Then I thought of what Grandma Keeler had said to me about laboring for
this young man's spiritual good.
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