It was a spiritual Spring-cleaning, as drastic and as overdone as are the domestic upheavals known by that name.

But it did a vast deal of good, all the same, to South Wales; and though it was a seventh wave, the tide of temperance, thrift, cleanliness, bodily and spiritual, has risen to a higher level of average in the beautiful romantic Principality ever since.

Evan Gwyllim Jones, however, overdid it.

He had to retire from the world to a Home--some said even to a Mental Hospital.

Six months afterwards he emerged, cured of his "voices," much plumper, and--perhaps--poor soul--shorn of some of his illusions and ideals; but he married a grocer's widow of Cardiff, and the _Daily Chronicle_ mentioned him no more.
The infection of his meetings however penetrated to the agricultural district in which Pontystrad was situated.