The congregation looked at that pew, the mothers enviously, when they sang the lines-- "Jerusalem like a city is Compactly built together." The first half of the service had been gone through on this particular Sunday without anything remarkable happening.

It was at the end of the psalm which preceded the sermon that Sanders Elshioner, who sat near the door, lowered his head until it was no higher than the pews, and in that attitude, looking almost like a four-footed animal, slipped out of the church.

In their eagerness to be at the sermon many of the congregation did not notice him, and those who did put the matter by in their minds for future investigation.

Sam'l, however, could not take it so coolly.

From his seat in the gallery he saw Sanders disappear, and his mind misgave him.