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Prudence of the Parsonage by Ethel Hueston
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was just as awful to Connie. On the head of the other were crossbones.

"Kneel," commanded the hoarse voice of Skull, in which Connie could
faintly distinguish the tone of Lark.

She knelt,--an abject quivering neophyte.

"Hear the will of Skull and Crossbones," chanted Crossbones in a shrill
monotone.

Then Skull took up the strain once more. "Skull and Crossbones, great
in mercy and in condescension, has listened graciously to the prayer of
Constance, the Seeker. Hear the will of the Great Spirit! If the
Seeker will, for the length of two weeks, submit herself to the will of
Skull and Crossbones, she shall be admitted into the Ancient and
Honorable Order. If the Seeker accepts this condition, she must bow
herself to the ground three times, in token of submission."

"There's no ground here," came a small faint voice from the kneeling
Seeker.

"The floor, madam," Skull explained sternly. "If the Seeker accepts
the condition,--to submit herself absolutely to the will of Skull and
Crossbones for two entire weeks,--she shall bow herself three times."

Constance hesitated. It was so grandly expressed that she hardly
understood what they wanted. Carol came to her rescue.

"That means you've got to do everything Lark and I tell you for two
weeks," she said in her natural voice.
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