Nancy rose up and kissed him. "Yes, go to the Temple. You might as well."

"Truly, mom? Oh, Benny, hurrah! She's let me! Come along!"

He ran round the cabin to his comrade, and she heard them shouting and
laughing together, and then the muted scamper of their bare feet on the
soft road toward the settlement.

The mother said to herself, "He'd get to see him sooner or later." She
drew her breath in a long sigh, and went into the cabin. "What a day, what
a day! It seems a thousand years," she said aloud.

"Are you talking to me, Nancy?" her brother asked from somewhere in the
dark.

"No, no. Only to myself, David. Where did I put the baby? Oh! I know.
I've let Joey go to the Temple to hear his father preach. Lord have mercy!"



VI


The discourse of Dylks the second night was a chain of biblical passages,
as it had been the first night. But an apparent intention, which had been
wanting before, ran through the incoherent texts, leaping as it were from
one to another, and there binding them in an intimation of a divine
mission. He did not say that he had been sent of God, but he made the
texts which he gave, swiftly and unerringly, say something like that for