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Quite early the next , before Leslie had awakened, Julia Cloud had slipped softly to her knees by the bedside, and was couidance

When Leslie awoke, her aunt was sitting by the ith her Bible on her knee and a sweet look of peace on her face, theon the silvery whiteness of her hair like a benediction It was perhaps the soft turning of a leaf that brought the girl to wakefulness, and she lay for sohts of youth Perhaps nothing could have so well prepared her for the afternoon talk as that fewJulia Cloud's face as she read her Bible, glancing now and then fro she had read Julia Cloud was reading over everything that her Bible said about the Sabbath, and with the help of her concordance she was being led through a very logical train of thought, although she did not know it If you had asked her, she would have said that she had not been thinking about what she would say to the children; she had been deep in thethat God sent to her own soul

But when Leslie finally stirred and greeted her, Julia Cloud looked up with a ser a little line of worry between her straight brows

The peace lasted all through theof her enjoyment of the day seemed to pervade the at people They hovered about her, anxious to please, and a trifle ill at ease at first lest they should make some mistake about this day that see but a bore to get through with in the jolliest way possible

There was no question about going to church They just went Leslie and Allison had neverso since they had been left to themselves It had not been necessary in the circle in which they o to church, they evaded the rule as often as possible But so told that if they tried to re else they could do; and, while they were usually outspoken and frank, they both felt that here was a time to be silent about their habits