Chapter VIII 



On Fessors Bed 



AS a rule, Fessor was at work at 

 his desk long, dark hours before 

 I was ready to get up in the morning. 

 I would hear him come quietly into the 

 den, so as not to wake Mamma and Edith, 

 and then the clock would strike twice, 

 or three times, and I soon learned that 

 that meant it was a long time before I 

 had to get up. But some mornings he 

 would be quite late, and once or twice 

 he went down to the office (as he called 

 it when he went away to be gone all 

 day) and never saw me at all until night. 

 Well, I did n't like that at all, so one 



