And then he prayed every night after that, right in public, that the Lord would soften her hard heart.

Finally I went to Mr.Leavitt, our minister then, and told him if he didn't make Fiske stop that I'd just rise up the next night and throw my hymn book at him when he mentioned that 'beautiful but unrepentant young woman.' I'd have done it too, believe ME.

Mr.Leavitt did put a stop to it, but Fiske kept on with his meetings until Charley Douglas put an end to his career in the Glen.

Mrs.Charley had been out in California all winter.

She'd been real melancholy in the fall--religious melancholy--it ran in her family.