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He did not add that he had paced up and down for an hour in his bedroo out into the darkness in great

anxiety for his son's safety

"Very interesting, father; nothing less than a ducking on the Rock

Bridge! The stor

in the er, and I was able to help her

to cross in safety"

"One of our congregation?" asked the old irl under seventy in our

congregation!"

"A Methodist, then, I suppose--one of Essec Powell's lot?"

"Yes," said Cardo, beginning to redden; "but surely you wouldn't let a

wo an effort to save her because she was a

Methodist?"

"I did not say so, Cardo; but certainly I should preferhis life for a esture of impatience which his father saw and felt It

irritated hi his eyes steadily on his son's face, he said: "I don't kno it is, but of late that subject has frequently been

on your tongue I have no cause to love the Methodists, and I hope

they are not now going to add tobetween me and my son I simply wish you not to mention them to

me, Cardo--that is nothis plate away; "I will never