I hope I haven't kept you waiting." "I've only just come," answered Turner.

"But I think it is time to go in." The little organ was muttering softly to itself as they entered.

It was very still otherwise.

The morning sun struck through the stained windows and made pretty lights about the altar; besides themselves there were some half dozen other worshippers.

The little organ ceased with a long droning sigh, and the minister in his white robes turned about, facing his auditors, and in the midst of a great silence opened the communion service with the words: "Ye who do truly and earnestly repent you of your sins and are in love and charity with your neighbours--" As Vandover rose with the rest the blood rushed to his head and a feeling of nausea and exhaustion, the dregs of his previous night's debauch, came over him again for a moment, so that he took hold of the back of the pew in front of him to steady himself..