Two Brave Boys by Mary E. Ropes

STEPAN would not suffer Alf and Bert to ask any questions; but they / felt that he had a definite purpose and plan, and hope began to rise / again in their poor little hearts. Quietly they lay in bed, watching / him. They saw him put fresh wood on the fire, and water to boil. They / saw him get the canister of coffee and measure out a liberal quantity.

And then they saw something else which set them wondering. Into a tiny / saucepan containing only a little water, he emptied a small paper / bag of faded-looking green things like round dried pods. He put a / cover on the saucepan and set it to boil. Then when he had made the / coffee, straining it through a bag, he poured through the bag also the / decoction he had prepared in the small saucepan and mixed it with the / coffee.