"I am not denying much natural goodness, for indeed he was a fine lad; but I will be looking for the evidence that he was in a state of grace.

I have not heard of any, and glad would I be to hear it." The old man's emotion took the sharpness out of Kenny's speech, but he persisted, stoutly, "Goodness is goodness, Mr.McRae, for all that." "You will not be holding the Armenian doctrine of works, Mr.Campbell ?" said Peter, severely.

"You would not be pointing to good works as a ground of salvation ?" Yankee, who had been following the conversation intently, thought he saw meaning in it at last.
"If I might take a hand," he said, diffidently, "I might contribute somethin' to help you out." Peter regarded him a little impatiently.

He had forgotten the concrete, for the moment, in the abstract, and was donning his armor for a battle with Kenny upon the "fundamentals." Hence he was not too well pleased with Yankee's interruption.

But Donald Ross gladly welcomed the diversion.