It is inconvenient for me to leave the office, but I feel that it is my Christian duty to obey such a summons.

I wish you, therefore, to look after things until I return." "I can hardly believe that the news is true," Ezra said, in astonishment.

"There must be some mistake.

Why, I spoke to him on 'Change last Monday." "It is very sudden," his father answered, taking his broad-brimmed hat from a peg.

"There is no doubt about the fact, however.