when you have them."

We were upon the broad wooden side-walk of an avenue leading from the
central street of the town to a region of outstanding gardens and
pleasure-grounds, in which the wooden villas of the citizens stood among
luxuriant trees. It is a characteristic of Fentown that the old trees
about the place have been left standing.

A new companion came to my side, and he, as fate would have it, was
another clergyman. He was an older man, with a genial, bearded face. I
think he belonged to that party which takes its name from the Evangel of
whose purity it professes itself the guardian.

"You are going to this entertainment which Mr. and Mrs. Toyner are
giving?" The cordiality of his common-place remark had a certain
restraint in it.

"You are going also?"

"No; it is not a house at which I visit. I have lived here for
twenty-five years, and of course I have known Mr. Toyner more or less
all that time. I do not know how I shall be able to work on the same
Council with him; but we shall see. We, who believe in the truth of
religion, must hold our own if we can."

I was to be the master of the new schools. I pleased him with my assent.

"I am rather sorry," he continued, "to tell the truth, that you should
begin your social life in Fentown by visiting Mr. Toyner; but of course
this afternoon it is merely a public reception, and after a time you