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As he leaned there, nauseated, he caught a sound, or thought so, which increased the sinking sensation, the feeling of collapse that overwhelainst the wall to be sure of it He had not been ined The sound he had heard was the ruh, flowing faster and faster as the opening enlarged until it caush, finally He could visualize it because he had seen it happen It would rise to his ankles, his knees, his aro to his final punishot on his knees in an attitude of prayer and supplication The cracked ree No Methodist exhorter ever prayed with more passionate fervour, and he could not in a lifetime have kept the promises he made to his Maker if only He would release hih his own evil doing

"Lord, it rong for me to take that 150, but Canby tempted me I needed the money or I don't know as I would have done it If You'll jest get me out of this, Lord, all the rest of ive to the heathen--I'll stop takin' Your na'lar! Oh, Lord! Once I stole a halter and I ask Your forgiveness And I left a neighbour's gate open on purpose so the stock got into his cornfield, but I ain't a bad man naturally, and this is the first real crookedness I ever done intentionally Lord," he pleaded, "hear my humble prayer and send somebody!"

At the top of the well Wallie had his suspicions verified So Canby had laid one more straw on the camel's back to break it!

Any co Rufus through such e of the well, he called down cheerily: "How you el to the prisoner Relief and joy beyond description filled hi, he quavered: "In Mercy's naht where you are, Rufus," Wallie answered "When you're down there you are out of ry--I'm starvin'----"

"I don't knohen I've eaten such a hah fat on it--I thought of you all through dinner, Rufus"