"I WAS thinking that my--my parishioners wouldn't have taken it so quietly.

But of course--it is all so different!" "As chalk from cheese!" said Dr.Ledsmar, lighting a fresh cigar.

"I daresay every one you saw there had come either to take the pledge, or see to it that one of the others took it.

That is the chief industry in the hall, so far as I have observed.

Now discipline is an important element in the machinery here.