He stopped, for he was weak. After a time, when he had lain gazing at the wall with a look that was new to his face, an eager look that made his wife break into hopeless but silent sobbing, he said:
When the President had been carried to his rest it came to pass that men whom the dead man had not known were called into the house to make ready for those who were to come. Through the long hours of the day they toiled. The garments that the President had worn and those things which he had used in his labor were placed aside. When it was evening they came upon an upper chamber full of toys. The men closed the door hastily and came away. But at night when they drew near to their own homes they kissed more tenderly the children who ran to meet them from their open doors.
In general every effort has been made to replicate the original text as faithfully as possible, which may include some instances of no longer standard spelling. The hyphenation is occasionally variable, notably in the usage of "Toy Shop" in the cover pages and toy-shop elsewhere; this has not been altered. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_.
End of Project Gutenberg's The Toy Shop, by Margarita Spalding Gerry