E of the great room. Then light feet pattered down the stairs and ran
across the broad hall. The _portiere_ was pushed aside and a bright
little face looked in. In another instant Robin's arms
were around his neck, and he was crying over and over in an ecstasy
of
delight, "Oh, it's Big Brother! It's Big Brother!" Not far away down
the avenue a great church organ was rolling out its accompaniment to
a Thanksgiving anthem. Steven could not hear
the words the choir chanted, but the deep music of the organ seemed
to him to be but the echo of what was throbbing in his own
heart. There was no lack of childish voices and merry
laughter in the great house that afternoon. A spirit of thanksgiving
was in the very atmosphere. No one could see the overflowing happine
