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Thatup fro forth his own joy and exultation in song He wondered if he could hide the truth from the eyes of others, and especially froli within him must surely reveal itself, no matter how he tried to hold it back He felt the vital forces of that hope more powerful within him now than in the hour when he had crept from the hospital ith freedom in his face For then he was not sure of hith And in the present ht caood luck and not bad that had thrown Mercer in his way For with Fingers behind hiet-aere better He would not be taking a hazardous leap chanced on the i deliberately, prepared

He blessed the ers, but whom he could not think of now in the terms of that naers, far north He no longer regarded hi of a man he had been for so reat awakening He had seen the soul of Fingers lift itself up out of its tabernacle of flesh and grow young again; he had seen stagnant blood race with new fire He had seen e years And he felt toward Fingers, in the face of that awakening, differently than he had felt toward any other livingcoain until afternoon, and then he brought information that thrilled Kent The ers was not on his porch Neither was the dog He had knocked loudly on the door, but there was no answer Where was Fingers? Kent shook his head, feigning an anxious questioning, but inside hi He knew! He told Father Layonne he was afraid all Fingers' knowledge of the law could do hiers had told him as much, and the little missioner went away considerably depressed He would talk with Fingers again, he said, and offer certain suggestions he had in one How shocked le Pere would be if he, too, could know!