Gideon was still puzzled.

He quoted, as to war: "The sign of a mad world.

God bless us out of it!" But he was beginning to wonder if perhaps this newest Whipple had not, with all his education, missed something that other Whipples had learned.
Harvey D.had once or twice spoken with frank impatience of the _New Dawn's_ gospel.

And one Kate Brophy, cook at the Whipple New Place, said of its apostle that he was "a sahft piece of furniture." Merle was sensitive to these little winds of captiousness.

He was now convinced that Newbern would never be a cultural centre.