"I have--hum--ha!--been discussing the regrettable affair of last night with Mr.Ellery.I have tried--hum--ha! to show him that respectable people of our society don't associate with Come-Outers, and that for a Regular minister to go to their meetings is something neither the congregation nor the parish committee approves of.

No--er--hum--ha! no!" "And I explained to Captain Daniels," observed the minister, "that I went there for what seemed to me good reasons, and, as they did seem to me good at the time, I'm not ashamed of having gone.

It was an honest mistake on my part and I may make more." "But the society--" began Elkanah.

Captain Zeb interrupted him.
"Don't worry about the society, Mr.Ellery," he said with emphasis.

"Nor about the parish committee, either.