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 lights and the circle of wondering onlookers,—fled shamefaced out through the open door into the cool night air, where it seemed to him that he had awakened from a dream, and only the prickling closeness of his Sunday best clothes told him it was a painful reality.



Yet he still groped blindly after his unattainable ideal. Indeed, in fulfillment of an earlier promise, he appeared at Sunday School on the following Sabbath afternoon. There, after a course of brief questioning, in which it developed that he knew neither any three of the Ten Commandments nor anything whatever