He who gives quickly gives twice, but it is better still to give twice and to give quickly." As he spoke he moved among the people, taking up a collection in his hat, and the people responded liberally.

He returned to his little eminence, and the Rev.James Nippit forced his way through the crowd, and confronted him, flushed, furious, over flowing.
"So," said James, "this is the reward of my kindness?
This--" Nickie was silent for a moment--for the preacher was Nicholas Crips, garbed in an old suit of his master's--then he turned calmly and said: "This gentleman, brothers and sisters, is the Reverend James Nippit, the founder of our noble much desire to say a few words.

I desire to say mission.

He desires to say a few words." "Yes, my good people," cried James, "I do very that the Young Men's Mission is one of the finest and most worthy institutions in this city to and to express the abhorrence I feel for those villains who make use of the credit the Mission has won for their own infamous purposes." He went on to explain how the Mission was being robbed, and wound up dramatically with the words: "And this man, this man at my side, this man who has addressed you in the guise of a minister, is one of the most wicked and detestable of the impostors." But in consequence of his oratorical training, and his clergyman's inability to come quickly to a point the denunciation lost its effect, for Nickie was not at the speaker's side; he had gone.

He had taken the Rev.James Nippit's buggy, and driven off, and he carried the collection with him.
The buggy was safe in the carriage-house when the Rev.James returned home, but Nickie was seeking fields and pastors new..