the following afternoon.

We were all intensely excited Saturday morning. To our dismay,
it began to rain just before dinner.

"What if Jerry doesn't bring the picture to-day because of the
rain?" I suggested.

"Never you fear," answered Felicity decidedly. "A Cowan would
come through ANYTHING for fifty cents."

After dinner we all, without any verbal decision about it, washed
our faces and combed our hair. The girls put on their second
best dresses, and we boys donned white collars. We all had the
unuttered feeling that we must do such honour to that Picture as
we could. Felicity and Dan began a small spat over something,
but stopped at once when Cecily said severely,

"How DARE you quarrel when you are going to look at a picture of
God to-day?"

Owing to the rain we could not foregather in the orchard, where
we had meant to transact the business with Jerry. We did not
wish our grown-ups around at our great moment, so we betook
ourselves to the loft of the granary in the spruce wood, from
whose window we could see the main road and hail Jerry. Sara Ray
had joined us, very pale and nervous, having had, so it appeared,
a difference of opinion with her mother about coming up the hill
in the rain.