They, themselves, entered it not oftener than three times a year, and Isaiah went there only when he felt inclined to dust, which was not often.

Shadrach had exhibited its treasures to the children one Sunday morning when Zoeth was at church, but he cautioned them against going there by themselves.

"You'd be liable to break somethin'," he told them, "and some of them things in there you couldn't buy with money.

They've been brought from pretty much everywheres in creation, those things have." But, in spite of the warning, or because of it, Jimmie was, as Isaiah would have said, "possessed" to visit that parlor.

He coaxed and teased and dared Mary-'Gusta to take advantage of the steward's stepping out of the house or being busy in the kitchen to open that parlor door and go in with him and peep at and handle the treasures.