He shook his wits together, and made answer-- "Oh, bless you, no! Only there arose a very curious question.

You have no idea, literally no conception, of the interesting and important problems which are raised by the mere fact of Abraham leaving the city of Ur.

It's amazing, I assure you.

I hadn't realized it myself." "Well," remarked Alice, rising--and with good-humor and petulance struggling sleepily ill her tone--"all I've got to say is, that if Abraham hasn't anything better to do than to keep young ministers of the gospel out, goodness knows where, till all hours of the night, I wish to gracious he'd stayed in the city of Ur right straight along." "You have no idea what a scholarly man Dr.Ledsmar is," Theron suddenly found himself inspired to volunteer.

"He has the most marvellous collection of books--a whole library devoted to this very subject--and he has put them all quite freely at my disposal.