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"Gee! Idown into a coood thing when I saw it even then, didn't I?"

"You know, Allison, that ceremony wasn't just all on your father's and mother's part; it entailed soe, and you've no right to waste it any old or bank stock or houses and lands It was your title to a heavenly sonship, and it gave God the right to call upon you to do whatever He wants you to do It's between you and God now, and you'll have to settle it yourself It's not anything I could settle for you either way, ht want it, because it is you who must answer God, and you must answer Hi to do with it"

"Oh, good-night! Cloudy, you certainly can put things in an aay Oh, hang it! Now this whole evening's spoiled I wish I hadn't gone to the front door at all I wish I'd turned out the lights and let 'e to read, and now it's too late!"

"Why, no; it's not too late at all," said Julia Cloud, consulting her little watch in the firelight "It's only quarter to nine, and I'ht, and finish the story before we go to bed Turn the light on, and get the azine"

With an air of finality Julia Cloud put aside the debated question, and settled herself in the bigchair by the lamp with her book Leslie went back to her chair by the fire, and Allison flung himself down on the couch with a pillow half over his eyes; but anybody watching closely would have seen that his eyes ide open and he was studying the calentle, even tone, paragraph after paragraph without a flicker of disturbance on her brow Allison was nothard Those things Julia Cloud had said about obligations and Moses and Abrahaet away from them