I didn't mean to do wrong--and I'm sure my mother didn't, either.

Stop, for Thy Son's sake, amen." Now surely she would wake.

God must answer that prayer.

She dared not take her palms from her eyes.
Suddenly she felt herself caught from behind.

She gave a wild scream and sprang up.
Jeb was looking at her with eyes that filled her with a fear more awful than the fear of death.