confidence he would see that the little boy was duly admitted.

I started up the street alone.

They went the other way. The officer carried the little boy.

The girl with the shawl over her head followed, pulling the hand-sled,
and on the sled rested the big, black Family Bible. I lost sight of
them as they turned the corner.




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An act is only a crystallized thought.


JOHN THE BAPTIST AND SALOME


John the Baptist, the strong, fine youth, came up out of the
wilderness crying in the streets of Jerusalem, “Repent ye! Repent ye!”

Salome heard the call and from her window looked with half- closed,
catlike eyes upon the semi-naked, young fanatic.

She smiled, did this idle creature of luxury, as she lay there amid
the cushions on her couch, and gazed through the casement upon the
preacher in the street.