Page 179 - Fairbrass

Fairbrass died, I have known how wrong

we have been in this. Since my dear

Fairbrass has been in heaven, he has been
allowed to speak to me.1
Truly, Fairbrass did well when he left

his will in God's hands !
When Pax, who had stealthily followed

the sister to the churchyard, returned with
a very quiet but by no means hopeless party

of four to the Big; I louse, he knew that the
dead boy's last living wish was in a fair

way of being carried out.

* * *

Paxt indeed (for the good sister so

thoughtfully cared for him that he lived to
be a very old dog), recognised by slow

degrees the odd fact that Fairbrass dead
was a far greater power than Fairbrass
living ever had been or was likely to be,

* Fairbrass wouldn't have liked this,’ or

1 Fairbrass wouldn't have wished that/
became household words amongst his