You ca n't get any more out of him than juice out of a post . I 've tried , and I know . '' But it was Miss Salome who had won Chester 's whole heart . He had never loved anybody in his hard little life before . He loved her with an almost dog-like devotion . He forgot that he was working to earn money -- and make his fortune . He worked to please Miss Salome . She was good and kind and gentle to him , and his starved heart thawed and expanded in the sunshine of her atmosphere . She went to the little porch room every night to kiss him good night . Chester would have been bitterly disappointed if she had failed to go . She was greatly shocked to find out that he had never said his prayers before going to bed . She insisted on teaching him the simple little one she had used herself when a child . When Chester found that it would please her , he said it every night . There was nothing he would not have done for Miss Salome . She talked a good deal to him about Johnny and she gave him the jack-knife that Johnny had owned . `` It belonged to a good , manly little boy once , '' she said , `` and now I hope it belongs to another such . '' `` I ai n't very good , '' said Chester repentantly , `` but I 'll try to be , Miss Salome -- honest , I will . '' One day he heard Miss Salome speaking of someone who had run away from home . `` A wicked , ungrateful boy , '' she called him . Chester blushed until his freckles were drowned out in a sea of red , and Clemantiny saw it , of course .
When did anything ever escape those merciless black eyes of XXXXX 's ?
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