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n of a good Protestant prayer-meeting. Nicholas of Pymeut must not be allowed to think it was only Jesuits who remembered the Sabbath day to keep it holy. And the three "pore benighted heathen" along with him, if they didn't understand English words, they should have an object-lesson, and Mac would himself pray the prayers they couldn't utter for themselves. He jumped up, motioned the Boy to put on more wood, cleared away the granite-ware dishes, filled the bean-pot and set it back to simmer, while the Colonel got out Mac's Bible and his own Prayer-Book. The Boy did his stoking gloomily, reading aright these portents. Almost eclipsed was joy in this "find" of his (for he regarded the precious Nicholas as his own special property). It was all going to end in his--the Boy's--being hooked in for service. As long as the Esquimaux were there _he_ couldn't, of course, tear himself away. And here was the chance they'd all been waiting for. Here was a native chock-full of knowledge of the natural law and the immemorial gospel of the North, who would be gone soon--oh, very soon, if Mac and the Colonel went on like this--and they were going to choke off Nicholas's communicativeness with--a service! "It's Sunday, you know," says the Colonel to the Prince, laying open his book, "and we were just going to have church. You are accustomed to going to church at Holy Cross, aren't you?" "When me kid me go church." "You haven't gone since you grew up? They still have church there, don't they?" "Oh, Father Brachet, him have church." "Why don't you go?" Nicholas was vaguely conscious of threatened disapproval. "Me ... me must take up fish-traps." "Can't you do that another day?" It seemed not to have occurred to Nicholas before. He sat and considered the matter. "Isn't Father Brachet," began the Colonel gravely--"he doesn't like it, does he, when you don't come to church?" "He take care him church; him know me take care me fish-trap." But Nicholas saw plainly out of his one eye that he was not growing in popularity. Suddenly that solitary organ gleamed with self-justification. "Me bring fish to Father Brachet and to Mother Aloysius and the Sisters." Mac and the Colonel exchanged dark glances. "Do Mother Aloysius and the Sisters live where Father Brachet does?" "Father Brachet, and Father Wills, and Brother Paul, and Brother Etienne, all here." The native put two fingers on the floor. "Big white cro
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