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" It meant that Grey must
not come with him, and when the boy who had stood beside him and read
the note with him, exclaimed, "Grandpa is worse; he is going to die; let
us go at once," he said, very decidedly:
"No, my son, not to-night. To-morrow you shall go and stay all day, but
not to-night, in this storm."
Very unwillingly Grey yielded, and saw his father depart without him.
"How is my father? How does he seem?" Mr. Jerrold asked of the boy Sam,
who replied:
"I don't know; I have not seen him. He would not even let me in this
afternoon when Miss Hannah was gone. He locked the door, and I heard him
working at something on the floor by his bed, as if trying to tear up
the plank. He was there when Miss Hannah came home and found him. I
guess he is pretty crazy. But here we are at the minister's, I was to
stop for him, you know. You will have to hold the horse. I sha'n't be
long," and reining up to the gate of the rectory Sam plunged into the
snow, and wading to the door, gave a tremendous peal upon the brass
knocker.


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