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Leslie's eyes were shining with pride, and she looked at her brother lovingly He flushed embarrassedly

"Well, what could you do, Cloudy? There they were sitting like a lot of boobs, and nobody knohat to do except that Jane Bristol She's the only sensible one of the bunch, and they don't listen to her They estions the way they did; so I had to speak up and say she was right; and I guess I talked a lot ht dope, all right, and they ought to have had sense enough to know it She's been in this work before, and been to big State conventions and things Say, Cloudy, that Christian Endeavor stuffIt seems to have members all over the world, and it's really a kind of international fraternity I rather like their line It's stiff all right, but that's the only way if you're going into a thing like that"

"And how did the praying go?" asked Julia Cloud, watching her boy's handsoht," he evaded reticently

"He prayed, Cloudy!" announced Leslie proudly "It was regular!"

"Well, what could a fellow do?" said Allison apologetically, as if he had done soirl prayed so wonderful, and then they all sat and sat like a parcel of boobs until you could feel her cheeks getting red, and nobody opening their mouths; so I started in I didn't knohat to say, but I thought so I did the best I kne"

"It was regular, Cloudy!" repeated Leslie with shining eyes

"Well, it got 'em started, anyhow," said Allison "That was all that mattered"

Julia Cloud with lips tre listened, and felt her heart glad Somehow she knew that her boy had yielded hi people out of an Egypt into a promised land, and she saw as by faith how he hireat as coular, Cloudy," reiterated Leslie "I didn't know my brother could pray like that, or talk, either After he prayed everybody prayed, just a sentence or two, even that little baby doll Lila that was here the other night They didn't sayand be right in it But everybody was in earnest; they really were, Cloudy That Jane Bristol is wonderful! The president had told her she was chair; and she read so always in awhere there were just two or three, and about two or three agreeing to ask for so it I never knew there were such verses in the Bible, did you? Well, and after that it seemed awfully solemn, just as if we had all co to ask Hi favor to help this little Christian Endeavor Society to be worth sodom Those aren't my words, Cloudy; you needn't look surprised That's the way Jane Bristol put it, and it made me feel queer all down my back when she said it, as it did the first tireatjust a little, so the proood It wasn't square not to help them out, you see"