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 *uously objected and requested that some boneset tea be warmed over. She sipped it in silence and handing Eletheer the emptied cup said: "Never neglect gathering your yearly supply of boneset. It is a wonderful bracer. Now see if Hernando would like to join us during our reading of the portion of the Scripture. They have company downstairs and the poor boy is all alone."

Eletheer obeyed, but her hands shook as she adjusted the easy-chair for him and he adroitly reached for the well-worn Bible with "What shall we read, Granny?"

"You may choose to-night, my boy."

He drew a little nearer the bed and opening the book at random began: "My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations."

Eletheer started. That chapter, as familiar as the multiplication table, somehow sounded different.

"If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.