`` But if you did not mean to come in and stay with us , what were you going to do ? '' `` I thought I 'd like to see Teddy again , and you ; and then I was going back to my old work in the city , only I was so tired I went to sleep on the hay . I 'd have been gone in the morning , if you had n't found me . '' `` Are you sorry I did ? '' and Mrs. Jo looked at him with a half merry , half reproachful look , as she knelt down to look at his wounded foot . The color came up into Dan 's face , and he kept his eyes fixed on his plate , as he said very low , `` No , ma'am , I 'm glad , I wanted to stay , but I was afraid you -- '' He did not finish , for Mrs. Bhaer interrupted him by an exclamation of pity , as she saw his foot , for it was seriously hurt . `` When did you do it ? '' `` Three days ago . '' `` And you have walked on it in this state ? '' `` I had a stick , and I washed it at every brook I came to , and one woman gave me a rag to put on it . '' `` Mr. Bhaer must see and dress it at once , '' and Mrs. Jo hastened into the next room , leaving the door ajar behind her , so that Dan heard all that passed . `` Fritz , the boy has come back . '' `` Who ? Dan ? '' `` Yes , Teddy saw him at the window , and he called to him , but he went away and hid behind the hay-cocks on the lawn . I found him there just now fast asleep , and half dead with weariness and pain . He ran away from Page a month ago , and has been making his way to us ever since . He pretends that he did not mean to let us see him , but go on to the city , and his old work , after a look at us . It is evident , however , that the hope of being taken in has led him here through every thing , and there he is waiting to know if you will forgive and take him back . '' `` Did he say so ? ''
`` His eyes did , and when I waked him , he XXXXX , like a lost child , ` Mother Bhaer , I 've come home . '
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