pass. They all saw me and Dick took off his
hat with great ceremony; but the ladies evidently thought they would
spare me the mortification of a recognition under the circumstances. I
couldn't help laughing within myself, though it was a bit embarrassing.
Dick was hilarious over it. He evidently sees nothing improper in it,
but a very good joke. He says he expects to hear me preaching there
yet. I told him it might be to his benefit if he did."

Both laughed. "But just think, Adele," said Winifred, "how infinitely
better to be in that little street crowd _with the Lord_, than driving
about in the finest motor car without Him!"

"Yes!" cried Adele, "I wouldn't trade places for worlds!"

"I should think not," said Winifred, with scorn of the idea.

Adele was finding out, like her friend, that the way of the cross
brings separation, and she had her own peculiar tests as to faithful
witnessing. Her merry-hearted cousin drew her out in words more
frequently than any other, and plied her with questions concerning this
new type of religion.

"It's no new sort of religion at all," she insisted. "It's just the
old sort you read of in the New Testament--and the prayer-book! Only I
am afraid I never really had it before--or it had not really got me.
If people would only be sincere, Dick, you would find it is the same
sort."

"I do not think the ordinary sort is much good," said Dick, with the
air of a connoisseur in religions.

It was to be lamented that the present incumbent at St. John's had not
met with the young man's very hearty favor. The freshly introduced
intoning struck him humorously. He imitated it in ordinary remarks
about the house.

"Where's--my--hat?" he inquired in a whining chant, after the manner of
the unfortunate rector's plaintively intoned "Let us pray."

Adele, always alive to the ridiculous, laughed; but still she wished he
would not be irreverent.

"The way we go through the service," said Dick, "is so as to relieve it
of as much sense as possible. No wonder some of us turn out
hypocrites. But you don't, Adele. However, I'll reserve my estimate
of your case till we see how you hold out at your new gait."

So Dick watched the "new gait," and Adele prayed that it might be a
walk worthy of the Lord.

Meantime Hubert was pursuing his study of divinity in a normal
way--with an open Bible and the Spirit of the Author to interpret. He
sought also the fellowship of His people and de