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THE NEW NEIGHBORBut what a man is, that is a matter of concern to every one who is called by circumstance to associate with him.
WITH a merry greeting to Saint Jimmy, Marta ran straight to the welcoming arms of Mother Burton.
“Goodness me, child,” the older woman exclaimed when she had kissed her and held her close for a moment as such mothers do, “you look as if—as if you were going to jump right out of your skin; I do declare!”
And Saint Jimmy, watching them, silently agreed with his mother, thinking that he had never seen the girl quite so animated. Her vivid, flamelike beauty seemed to fill the house with joyous warmth and light, while her laughter, in quick response to Mrs. Burton’s words, rang with such happy abandon, and thrilled with such tingling excitement, that her teach
