"If anything comes I'll wake you up. No use for two of us to be settin'
heah."
Bud was sleepy, and crept away obediently; but the day was spoiled, and
he went to bed sore with his brother's disappointment.
John Jay sat down again to keep his lonely tryst. He looked up at the
faithless stars. They had failed to help him, but in his desperation he
determined to appeal to them once more. So he picked out the seven
largest ones he could see and repeated very slowly, in a voice that
would tremble, the old charm:
"Star-light, star bright,
Seventh star I've seen to-night;
I wish I may and I wish I might
Have the wish come true I wish to-night."
Then he made his wish again, with a heart felt earnestness that was
almost an ache. Oh, surely the day was not going to end in this cruel
silence! Just then he heard the thud of a horse's hoofs on the wooden
bridge, far down the road. Nearer and louder it came. Somebody was
prancing by at last. He stood up, straining his eyes in his smiling
eagerness to see. Nearer and nearer the hoof-beats came in the
starlight.
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