Father, of what art thou thinking—that the twelve slept and dreamed? But before Dan could find an answer to his son’s question Joseph sank away into regrets that he had acceded to his father’s request and told him this last miracle, and that he had not been able to disguise the fact, in the telling, that Jesus had chosen as his apostles those who accompanied him into the mountains. He intended to omit all mention of this election, but it slipped from him unawares in the excitement of the telling, and now to divert his father’s thoughts from the unfortunate admission Joseph called to one of the parrots and spoke cheerfully to the bird, and to the monkey that came hopping across the sward and jumped into his arms; but Dan knew his son’s face too well to be deceived by the poor show Joseph co
