The pages showed
how much they had been studied, but no verse was more marked than the
one Roy had given him. "Endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus
Christ."
On Sunday evening the boys paid a visit to old Principle. They had been
talking about Rob, when Roy said wistfully,
"Rob used his opportunity when he got it, didn't he? I expect he didn't
know what a hero he was. I wonder if I shall ever get one come to me. I
should like to do something great for God, and great for my country. I
shall never give up wishing for a great opportunity to come to me!"
Then old Principle spoke, and his tone was very solemn:
"'Tis not I that will make you proud and uplifted, laddie, but you have
been given the grandest opportunity that ever a poor mortal could be
given, and you've taken it and made use of it, thank the Lord!"
Both boys gazed up at him with open eyes and mouths.
Dudley said after a minute's thought:
"We've both had some little opportunities, and Roy has had the biggest.
He saved me from drowning, and he went into the cave to fetch you!"
"Those weren't proper opportunities," muttered Roy in scorn, "they
aren't worth remembering; not after what Rob has done.
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