“Because he is no relation to her at
all,’? cried Leah, “and the property
all came from our great grand
father, Lennox, thee knows,”
“ I’hee.uUackes too much|importance
to mere dross, Leah,” said Friend
Decker. “Ttieo must study the text of
the lilies of the field in the Bible. ‘Wa
shall all be provided for, if only we
can have patience to wait.’ ”
Leah bit her full red under lip as
she glanced around the sparsely fur
nished room and noted her father's
drooping figure and rapidly whiten
mg head, but she made no reply, as
she took up the coarse pile of vests
on which she had been working but
ton holes for a neighboring clothing
contractor.
“Father’s a saint,” thoi lit she,
“but lam not, and I’m afr J 1 never
shall be. 1 should like tocul off An
astasia Akerly's ears. If every one
had their rights half of that big Len
nox farm would be ours. She gained
possession of it by the merest legal
quibble, and if father was like anyone
else he would have gone to law about
it long ago and got back his own.
And now to see it willed deliberately
to someone else 1”
And Leah's needle fir w vindictively
in and out of the cloth like a minia
ture j ivelin piercing the heart of some
unseen enemy.
But the next morning when Leah
had gone to carry her bundle of vests
home, and got another batch of work
Friend Decker put on lus hat and but
toned the great coat which was get
ting so worn at the elbows and shiny
at the seams.
