Show TilE POWER OF PRATER No said the lawyer shant press your claim against that man you can get someone else to take tho case or you can withdraw 11 Just as you please i Think there Isnt any money In It There would probably be acme littlemoney It but It would come from the sale of the little house that the man occupies and calls hl home But I dont want to meddle with the matter anyhow Got frightened out of It eh Sot at dl I suppose likely the fellow begged liard to ba let off Well yes he did And you caved In likely Yes What In creaUon did you do ii believe I shed a few teals AnJ the old fellow begged you bard you say > o I dldut say so hu didnt slk a word to me Well may I respectfully Inquire whom ho did aJilrusa Ip your bear S lug God Almighty Ab he took to praying did lie > ot for my benefit In the least You eee I found the Ilttla house easily enough and knocked at the outer door which stood ajar but nobody h Nw me so I stepped into the Ilttl hall and saw through the crack or a door a coiy sitting room and tbere on the bed with ln silver i sil-ver head high on tho pillows was an old lady who tooted for all the lJ nf world just as my mother did i the last time leur saw her ion i-on oaith Well I was on the I point of knocking when she said Come father now begin Im all ready And down on his knees by her side went an old wbllehalreu man still older than his wife r should Judge and I couldnt have knocked then for the ills of me First he reminded God that thy were Ills submissive children mother and be and no matter what lie saw fit to bring upon them tUry shouldnt rebel at His will Of course twas going to be very hard fhaei for them to JO out homeless In their old age especially with mother S sick and helpless and oh how different re tOit II tdI bndli ferent it all might have been If only one of the boys had been spared Then his voice kind cf broke and a thin white hand stole from under the coverlid and mrmd softly over his snowy hair Then he went on to repeat thai nothing could be so sharp again as the parting with tboO three sons unless un-less mother do ho should I bo separated separ-ated atedlint But at last ho fell to comfortlcg himself with the fact that the dear Lord knew that It was through no fault of his own that mother and ha were threatened with the loss of tuiir dear little home which meant beggary and the almshouse place they prayed to be dellveed from if it could be consistent with Gods wilL And then ho quoted a multitude multi-tude of promises concerning the safety ot those who put their trust In the Lord In fact It was the most thrilling plea to which I I ever J listened And at last he prayed fur Gods blessing ou those who were about demand Justice The lawyer law-yer then continued more Jowly than ever AndlLellevc rather gi to the poorhouse myself tonight than to stain my heart and hands wills the blood of such a prosecution as that Little afraid to defeat the old mans prayer th1 Blea4 your soul man you couldnt defeat IU said the lawyer I tell ycu ho left It all sutJect to the will of God but ho claimed that we were told to make known cur dlres under God but of all the pleaillugs I ever heard that beat all You tot I was tajgbt that kind of tiling myself my childhood And why wag I sent ta hear that prayer Imsure I dont know but I hand the ca eovrr I wish said the client twist ing uneasil you hadnt told me about the old fellows prayer t Why so i well because I want the money the place would bring but I was taught the Biblo straight enough when I was a youngster and Id hate to run counter to that you tell me about I wish you hadnt huard a word about it and another time I wouldnt listen to petitions not Intended In-tended for my ears The lawyer smiled Mi dear fellow he said youre wrong again II was Intended In-tended for my ears and yours ioo and God Almighty Intended It My old mother u ed to sing about GqtIJs morins In a mysterious way Ira member Well my mother ustd to sing It too said the claimant as ho twisted the claim papers In his finv gets You can call in the morning morn-ing if you like and tell mother moth-er and him the claim has buen > < metIn a mysterious way added the lawyer smiling Ootton ittAe |