"You'll stay here with him?" she asked.
"Yes'm," he answered promptly.
"There's no one else here," she said. "He lives all alone."
He did not need this assurance. He suspected from the old man's manner to her that she came frequently to this house. Now that her suspicions of his identity did not produce the effect he had expected on her, he would have stayed anywhere with anybody, where there was a chance of seeing her.
He stared after her in utter absorption as she went away. He heard a bell ring somewhere and perceived that it was the old man who had rung it and that it caused a servant to appear.
"Get Burtin," the man directed to the servant, "and take him and fix him up."
The servant went away and returned after a moment with the negro. Peewee went with them to the second floor. He did not resist, as in a pretty bedroom the negro began to undress him and the other man turned on the water in a tub. They lifted him and set him in the bath. As they dried him and wrapped him in a blanket,
