"
So Sophie went away, and returning, took him upstairs.
"Samuel," said his divinity, "it isn't safe for you to come to see me
in the afternoons."
"Yes, Miss Gladys," said he. "But this is something very serious. It's
got nothing to do with myself."
"What is it?" she asked.
"It's your father, Miss Gladys."
"My father?"
"Yes, Miss Gladys. It's a long story. I shall have to begin at the
beginning."
So he told the story of his coming to the church, and of the fervor
which had seized upon him, and how he had set to work to bring
converts into the fold; and how he had met a wicked man who had
resisted his faith, and of all the dreadful things which this man had
said. When he came to what Charlie Swift had told about her own
father, Samuel was disposed to expurgate the story; but Miss Gladys
would have it all, and seemed even to be disappointed that he had not
more details to give her.
"And Hickman!" she exclaimed gleefully. "I always knew he was an old
scamp! I'll wager you haven't found out the hundredth part about him,
Samuel!"
Samuel went on to tell about the revelation at Callahan's.
"And you took that to Dr. Vince!" she cried amazed.
"Yes," said he.
"And what did he say?"
"He wouldn't have anything to do with it. And so it's all left to me."
"And what are you going to do now?"
"I don't know, Miss Gladys. For one thing, I think I shall have to see
your father.
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