`` There 's a nice little tom-pussy out in the barn . I 'll give you that too , if you 'd like it . Say the word , '' he said . `` No , thank you , '' said Faith decidedly . `` I do n't like cats , and besides , I have a rooster . '' `` Listen to her . You ca n't cuddle a rooster as you can a kitten . Who ever heard of petting a rooster ? Better take little Tom . I want to find a good home for him . '' `` No . Aunt Martha has a cat and he would kill a strange kitten . '' Norman yielded the point rather reluctantly . He gave Faith an exciting drive home , behind his wild two-year old , and when he had let her out at the kitchen door of the manse and dumped his cargo on the back veranda he drove away shouting , `` It 's only once a month -- only once a month , mind ! '' Faith went up to bed , feeling a little dizzy and breathless , as if she had just escaped from the grasp of a genial whirlwind . She was happy and thankful . No fear now that they would have to leave the Glen and the graveyard and Rainbow Valley . But she fell asleep troubled by a disagreeable subconsciousness that Dan Reese had called her pig-girl and that , having stumbled on such a congenial epithet , he would continue to call her so whenever opportunity offered . CHAPTER XVII . A DOUBLE VICTORY Norman Douglas came to church the first Sunday in November and made all the sensation he desired .
Mr. Meredith shook hands with him absently on the church steps and hoped dreamily XXXXX Mrs. Douglas was well .
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