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"Father," she said, nestling close to his side, "look at the lilies How

straight they are! How strong! Oh, the white bells full of sweet scent!

In theers

could scarcely hold the bunch she had gathered; and she buried her

lovely face in theht, and the cries of "Oh, oh, how delicious!"

Long before supper was over, Madaht Elder Semple had a special reason for his call His talk of Mennon

and the Anabaptists and the objectionable Lutherans, she perceived, was

all surface talk; and when the one to

their rooht

another pipe I hae soudewife, we

shall want your word on the e between hter Katherine"

The words fell with a sharp distinctness, not unkindly, but as if they

were more than common words They were followed by a marked silence, a