in one corner while
the school is going on, and the teacher is a native."

"Ah, yes; I understand."

"Mrs. C---- is the missionary who superintends it, along with a lot of
other schools. Do you know her?"

"No, but I have seen her name in the missionary papers."

"Did you have some of those little schools when you were a missionary,
Mrs. Thurston?" Marty inquired.

"Yes, I did some school work, but more zenana work."

"What is zenana work?"

Just then Mrs. Thurston noticed that preparations were being made to
drive on, so she merely replied,

"Come down to the village and see me, and we will have a good missionary
talk."

"Thank you ever so much," said Marty. "I do hope mamma will let me go."

Evaline was quite overcome when she learned that Mrs. Thurston was a
"real live missionary," and said,

"She's the first one I ever saw. I wonder if they're all as nice as
that."

After consultation with her mother, Marty decided to give half her
"flower money"--which altogether amounted to eighty cents--to the
mountain band, and keep the other half for the home band. "Because, you
see, this is all out-and-out missionary money; there's no tithing to be
done," she said.

Evaline never felt so large in her life as she did when going to the
band meeting the next Sunday, with her eighty cents ready to hand to
Hugh Campbell.

The Saturday following that memorable Thursday, Miss Fanny and Miss Mary
again presented themselves at the farmhouse, where they were welcomed
like old friends. After some pleasant chat, and a lunch of gingerbread
and fresh buttermilk, Miss Fanny said,

"We came this morning chiefly to bring you an invitation from Mrs.
Thurston. She wants you all, or as many as possible, to come to an
all-day missionary meeting at the hotel next Tuesday."

"All day!" exclaimed Almira.

"Yes. That sounds formidable, doesn't it?" laughed Miss Fanny. "But I'll
tell you about it. We are going to sew for a home missionary family. You
must know that Mrs. Thurston, after spending the best part of her life
and the greater part of her strength in the foreign field, still does
all, in fact, more than her poor health will allow her to do for
missions both at home and abroad. She heard the other day that a
missionary family, acquaintances of hers, in Nebraska, had been burnt
out, and lost everything but the clothes they had on. She told us about
them with tears in her eyes, and some of us discovered she was laying
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