There was a new heaven and a new earth for him
in the realization.
"Oh, Baby Blossom!" he murmured, "Little Baby Blossom!"
Sara rubbed her cheek against the faded coat sleeve.
"Daddy darling, this moment makes up for everything, doesn't it?"
"But--but--where did you come from?" he asked, his senses beginning
to struggle out of their bewilderment of surprise. "I didn't expect
you till to-morrow. You didn't have to walk from the station, did you?
And your old daddy not there to welcome you!"
Sara laughed, swung herself back by the tips of her fingers and danced
around him in the childish fashion of long ago.
"I found I could make an earlier connection with
the C.P.A. yesterday and get to the Island last night.
I was in such a fever to get home that I jumped at the chance.
Of course I walked from the station--it's only two miles
and every step was a benediction. My trunks are over there.
We'll go after them to-morrow, daddy, but just now I want to go
straight to every one of the dear old nooks and spots at once."
"You must get something to eat first," he urged fondly. "And there ain't
much in the house, I'm afraid. I was going to bake to-morrow morning.
But I guess I can forage you out something, darling.
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