The bell had tolled for some minutes after the time
of meeting, and some signs of impatience were manifest.
A stranger, touching the occupant of a pew in front of
him, asked, “Is your preacher often as late as this?”

“O, yes, sir,” replied the interrogated; “it often
happens that he don't get here till the sermon is half
through!”

The stranger looked at him intently a little while, and
then made a memorandum of this fact in his note-book.

p677-376

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