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The Old Peabody Pew

CHAPTER VI
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New shingles within a year: that was evident to a practised eye.

He wondered if anything had been done to the inside of the building, but he must wait until the morrow to see, for, of course, the doors would be locked.

No; the one at the right side was ajar.

He opened it softly and stepped into the tiny square entry that he recalled so well--the one through which the Sunday-school children ran out to the steps from their catechism, apparently enjoying the sunshine after a spell of orthodoxy; the little entry where the village girls congregated while waiting for the last bell to ring--they made a soft blur of pink and blue and buff, a little flutter of curls and braids and fans and sunshades, in his mind's eye, as he closed the outer door behind him and gently opened the inner one.

The church was flooded with moonlight and snowlight, and there was one lamp burning at the back of the pulpit; a candle, too, on the pulpit steps.


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