sing, and I think perhaps it helps them to feel less lonely, and keeps
them from evil. I shall try to-night, if I am needed. Mr. Craig will not
ask me unless he must.'

I would have seen every miner and lumberman in the place hideously drunk
before I would have asked her to sing one song while her heart ached. I
wondered at Craig, and said, rather angrily--

'He thinks only of those wretched miners and shantymen of his.'

She looked at me with wonder in her eyes, and said gently, 'And are they
not Christ's too?'

And I found no word to reply.

It was nearing ten o'clock, and I was wondering how the fight was going,
and hoping that Mrs. Mavor would not be needed, when the door opened,
and old man Nelson and Sandy, the latter much battered and ashamed, came
in with the word for Mrs. Mavor.

'I will come,' she said simply. She saw me preparing to accompany her,
and asked, 'Do you think you can leave him?'

'He will do quite well in Nelson's care.'

'Then I am glad; for I must take my little one with me. I did not put
her to bed in case I should need to go, and I may not leave her.'

We entered the church by the back door, and saw at once that even yet
the battle might easily be lost.