Diamond gave a shiver, and looking round saw that the door
of the stable was open. He began to feel as if he had been
dreaming, and after a glance about the stable to see if North
Wind was anywhere visible, he thought he had better go back to
bed.
CHAPTER XXXIII
THE PROSPECT BRIGHTENS
THE next morning, Diamond's mother said to his father, "I'm not
quite comfortable about that child again."
"Which child, Martha?" asked Joseph. "You've got a choice
now."
"Well, Diamond I mean. I'm afraid he's getting into his
queer ways again. He's been at his old trick of walking in his
sleep. I saw him run up the stair in the middle of the night."
"Didn't you go after him, wife?"
"Of course I did -- and found him fast asleep in his bed.
It's because he's had so little meat for the last six weeks, I'm
afraid."
"It may be that. I'm very sorry. But if it don't please God
to send us enough, what am I to do, wife?"
"You can't help it, I know, my dear good man," returned
Martha. "And after all I don't know. I don't see why he
shouldn't get on as well as the rest of us. There I'm nursing
baby all this time, and I get along pretty well. I'm sure, to
hear the little man singing, you wouldn't think there was much
amiss with him.
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