All these pictures drawn by the Holy Spirit in the human tragedies brought to a climax there in the most abandoned spot in all Raymond, stood out in Rachel's memory now, a memory so recent that her room seemed for the time being to contain all the actors and their movements.
"No! No!" she said aloud.

"He had no right to speak after all that! He should have respected the place where our thoughts should have been.

I am sure I do not love him--not enough to give him my life!" And after she had thus spoken, the evening's experience at the tent came crowding in again, thrusting out all other things.

It is perhaps the most striking evidence of the tremendous spiritual factor which had now entered the Rectangle that Rachel felt, even when the great love of a strong man had come very near to her, that the spiritual manifestation moved her with an agitation far greater than anything Jasper had felt for her personally or she for him.
The people of Raymond awoke Sunday morning to a growing knowledge of events which were beginning to revolutionize many of the regular, customary habits of the town.

Alexander Powers' action in the matter of the railroad frauds had created a sensation not only in Raymond but throughout the country.