the world doing good works. And that's why Miss Allen wouldn't read
the Bible and say the Lord's prayer in school."

"What do you think of that?" demanded Carol. "Isn't that heresy?
She's as bad as the priest and Levite, isn't she?"

"Did you ask Miss Allen about it?"

"No, indeed, we've just ignored Miss Allen ever since. We have watched
her as closely as we could since then, to see if we could catch her up
again. Of course she has to be careful what she says in school, but we
found several strong points against her. It's a perfectly plain case,
no doubt about it."

"And so you went among the other freshmen influencing them, and telling
tales, and criticizing your----"

"No indeed, Prue, we wouldn't! But you know it says in the Bible to
beware of false doctrines and the sowers of bad seed,--or something
like that--"

"And we bewared as hard as we could!" grinned Carol.

"We have tried to explain these things to the other freshmen so Miss
Allen could not lead them into--into error. Oh, that's Christian
Science, isn't it? Well, Minnie Carlson is a Christian Scientist and
she talks so much about falling into error that--honestly----"

"We can't tell error from truth any more," interjected Carol neatly.
"And so I hope you won't punish us if we accidentally vary from the