“You’ll like Battle Creek,” David said nevertheless. He was grateful to her for helping him to summarize his blessings. “Don’t ever worry about what anybody says.” As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. Isaiah something.
When school started that fall, Mary’s older brother Gus was in David’s class. Soon the two boys became best friends and soon after that, since the Egan children had no mother and David Kyle’s mother had no daughter, Gus and Mary became ex-officio members of the Kyle household.
When Hannah Kyle discovered they were getting their own mid-day meal, she persuaded their father to allow them to come home with David; there was of course an unobtrusive arrangement about payment and the arrangement continued until David w
