"I've found out that we're always happier, kid, when we've got a to-morrow to look to," said he, "'cause when you're just satisfied, somethin's very apt to go smash. I was that way once." He paused for some seconds. "Jinnie," he murmured, "I haven't told you how I lost the use of my legs, have I?" "No, Lafe." "Well, as I was sayin', there didn't used to be any to-morrow for me. I always lived just for that one day. I had Peg an' the boy. I could work for 'm, an' that was enough. It's more'n lots of men get in this world." His voice trailed into a whisper and ceased. He was living for the moment in the glory of his past usefulness. The rapt, wrinkled face shone as if it had been touched by angel fingers. Virginia watched him reverently. "It's more'n two years ago, now," proceeded the cobbler presently, "an' I was workin' on one of them tall uptown buildin's. Jimmy Malligan worked right alongside of me. We was great chums, Jimmy an' me. One day the ropes broke on one of the scaffoldin's--at least, that's what folks said. When we was picked up, my legs wasn't worth the powder to blow 'em up--an' Jimmy was dead. ... But Peg says I'm just as good as ever." Here Mr. Grandoken took out his pipe and struck a match. "But I ain't. 'Cause them times Peg didn't have to work. We always had fires enough, an' didn't live like this. But, as I was sayin', me an' Peg just kinder lived in to-day. Now, when I hope that mebbe I'll walk again, I'm always measurin' up to-morrow----Peg's the best woman in the world." Jinnie shivered as a gust of wind rattled the window pane. "She makes awful good hot mush," she commented. "Anyhow," went on Lafe, "I was better off'n Jimmy, because he was stone dead. There wasn't any to-day or to-morrow for him, an' I've still got Peggy." "And this shop," supplemented the girl, glancing around admiringly. "Sure, this shop," assented Lafe. "I had clean plumb forgot this shop--I mean, for the minute--but I wouldn't a forgot it long." He knocked the ashes out of his pipe and set to work. Neither girl nor man spoke for a while, and it wasn't until Lafe heard Peg's voice growling at one of Milly's kittens that he ceased his tick-tack. "You wouldn't like to join my club, lass, would you?" he ventured. Jinnie looked up quickly. "Of course I would," she said eagerly. "What kind of a club is it?" The girl's faith in the cobbler was so great that if Lafe had commanded her to go into danger, she wouldn't have hesitated. "Tell me what the club is, Lafe," she repeated. "Sure," responded Lafe. "Come here an' shake hands! All you have to do to be a member of my club is to be 'Happy in Spite' an' believe everythin' happenin' is for the best." A mystified expression filled the girl's earnest blue eyes. "I'm awful happy," she sighed, "and I'm awful glad to come in your club, but I just don't understand what it means."