Finally, Jake asked her point-blank, "Kate, what is the matter with
you? You are acting so queer."

"Well, Jake, I might as well tell you," answered Kate. "I am a
Christian Scientist."

If Jake Newby had been hit with a cannon ball he would not have been
worse shocked.

"Christian Science!" he echoed. "Of all things! Where did you get hold
of that?"

Then she told him of getting the leaflet, then Science and Health,
and how she had gradually been won to embrace it. Jake was clearly
disturbed, and started to argue with Kate, but she had the advantage
in that he did not know anything about it. So Jake thought of Robert
Davis.

"Say, Robert," said Jake to Robert the first time that they met after
his talk with Kate about Christian Science, "do you know anything
about Christian Science?"

"Indeed I do," said Robert, "my mother once got somewhat entangled in
it, and through her efforts to get out I was led to study it."

"Come over and talk to Kate, then," said Jake. "She has taken up with
it and it is ruining her. Please come over and talk with her about it.
We must have help."