Hepsey Burke

to hunt up Nickey, who was dressed and sitting on the t

f conscience does all this idiotic

Gazing serenely down at

I told Ollie the fire was breakin' out all around us, and the sparks was flyin', and the stairs was burned away, and there was no way of 'scapin' but to slide down the rope over the roof. I 'aint to blame

est her face should relax

was ample reparation for the untoward interruption of her oratory. She 82 delivered into his hands, with sensitive upward glance, the receptacle containing her manuscript, and set a brisk pace,

l of time and study to your subj

s. "Home-life is, to me, almost a religion. Do you not feel, with

-she glanced up at him apprehensively, whereupon, lest he seemed to

audiences; their attitude is so stolid, so unimaginative. As you must have realized, in the pulpit, they are so hard to lea

htly 83 shod, stumbled neatly and grasped her esc

ated,-"I often wonder, as my eyes wander over the congregation, how ma

ttle at a loss, though anxious not to seem unrespo

he simpler problems, here in Durford," he replied. "

nd?" (she glanced up with tremulous flutter of eyelids) "-you have

mpersonal significance in parish compliments. A more self-con

ve seconded my efforts so energetically-indeed I don't know what I could have accompl

wn portion, and soon magnified it to a basketful-and soon, again, to a monopoly of the entire supply. As he gave her his hand at th