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"I'd ruther not," she faltered

"Then don't, Aently

"Mebby that's why I'd orter," she acknowledged, lifting serious eyes to

his "You said that Sunday that a'n't to turn out of the way fer

hard things"

"I don't want it to be hard for you to tell ly "Suppose you showave a recital of her plan for raising money for

the mission, and of its successful fulfil heroically to ravity as he

heard of the realization of the long-cherished, long-deferred dreaers

"And we took in thirty-seven cents," she said in breathless excitement,

as she handed him the contents of the pie tin

"Amarilly," he replied fervently, with the look that Colette was

learning to love, "you did just right to use the surplices, and this

contribution means enerous thought that proloith pride at this acknowledg a snatch of his solo

"Is this the little brother that sang the offertory?"

"Yes; that's hiain for me, now?"