Listen! Out in the library--the big room
where the telephone is, you know--you will find a carved box on
the lower shelf of the big case with glass doors in the corner
not far from the fireplace. That is, it'll be there if that
confounded woman hasn't 'regulated' it to somewhere else! You may
bring it to me. It is heavy, but not too heavy for you to carry,
I think."
"Oh, I'm awfully strong," declared Pollyanna, cheerfully, as she
sprang to her feet. In a minute she had returned with the box.
It was a wonderful half-hour that Pollyanna spent then. The box
was full of treasures--curios that John Pendleton had picked up
in years of travel--and concerning each there was some
entertaining story, whether it were a set of exquisitely carved
chessmen from China, or a little jade idol from India.
It was after she had heard the story about the idol that
Pollyanna murmured wistfully:
"Well, I suppose it WOULD be better to take a little boy in India
to bring up--one that didn't know any more than to think that God
was in that doll-thing--than it would be to take Jimmy Bean, a
little boy who knows God is up in the sky.
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