"Why, yes," she replied, "I-- Why, of course I do." "There, that's it! Any decent, sensible person would.

But I don't." Barbara, startled into forgetting that children should be seen and not heard, uttered a shocked "Oh!" Jed waved his hand.

"You see," he said, "even that child's morals are upset by me.

I know I ought to want to go to heaven.

But when I see the crowd that KNOW they're goin' there, are sartin of it, the ones from this town, a good many of 'em anyhow; when I hear how they talk in prayer-meetin' and then see how they act outside of it, I-- Well," with a deep sigh, "I want to go where they ain't, that's all." He paused, and then drawled solemnly, but with a suspicion of the twinkle in his eye: "The general opinion seems to be that that's where I'll go, so's I don't know's I need to worry." Mrs.Armstrong made no comment on this confession.