"Married--and to whom ?" "To Joe Masters, sir, at the Baptist Chapel at Big Bluff, Sunday, an' Marm McKinstry was thar with her." There was a momentary and breathless pause.

Then the voices of his little pupils--those sage and sweet truants from tradition, those gentle but relentless historians of the future--rose around him in shrill chorus--"WHY, WE KNOWED IT ALL ALONG, SIR!".