music among the pine-tops mingled with them. The forest fairly rang with
a magnificent, adoring Doxology.

"We ought to be decent kind of fellows after this," said Cyrus, when the
little service was over.

And the doctor answered,--

"I tell you, boy, the church was never built where a man feels so ready
to worship the God-Father in spirit and in truth as he does in the wild
woods."

And looking on the six fresh, manly faces before him, Dr. Phil saw that
this happy woodland trip would have grander results than adding to the
campers' inches and to the breadth of their shoulders. For each one of
them had realized this morning that behind all strength and beauties of
forest growth, behind their own souls' gladness, was a Presence which
they could "almost palpably feel."




CHAPTER X.

FORWARD ALL!


Speculations about the journey, and in especial about the corduroy road,
were rife in the boys' minds during the forty and odd hours which
elapsed between the Sunday service and the time of their start.