They say you turned parson last night; did you ?" "No," said Tip, with the greatest good humour, "I didn't." "Didn't you speak in meeting ?" A quiet gravity spread itself over Tip's face.

"I prayed in meeting," he answered soberly.
"Oh, well, what did you pray for?
Come, let's know." "I prayed for _you_." Tip spoke with quiet dignity.
"Humph! Now, that's clever, certainly.

Much obliged." And Will said no more.
Certainly the boys had never talked so much about any prayer-meeting in their lives as they did about this one.

So that was the way it commenced; such a little fire kindled it.

Tip didn't know it; he never found it out; probably he never will, until he takes his crown in heaven.