“I have good cause for remembering,” she said, pointing across the street. “There’s the very place where I came so near to losing my life, and probably would have lost it if it hadn’t been for you.”
“I simply had the good luck to be on hand at the time,” replied Bob. “Anyone else would have done as much. But what is it that brings you to Clintonia? Are you going to stay for some time?”
“No,” she responded, “I expect to go back home this afternoon. I came to Clintonia to see your Doctor Dale, the pastor of the Old First Church. You know him, I suppose.”
“Know him!” replied Bob. “I should say I do. He’s one of the finest men that ever lived. It was only yesterday that I had a long talk with him. If I had time this morning, I’d take you up and introduce you to him.”
“Thank you just as much,” Miss Berwick answered. “I’m going to see him about the services in his church that are carried to other churches by radio. The little church in our town isn’t large enough to support a pastor and I’ve heard of so many little churches that are supplied by him that I thought we might make similar arrangements. I wanted to learn from him just what kind of receiving sets are best for the purpose and just how one can be installed.”
“He’ll be glad to give you any information that you want,” Bob assured her. “He’s doing great work by radio, and by this time there must be thousands who listen to him every Sunday. He’ll be only too pleased to have your church added to the list. And say,” he added, “when you’ve picked out your set, some of the other fellows and I will come over and rig it up.”
“That’s awfully good of you,” she said gratefully. “We’ll certainly need some help of that kind, for I don’t know any of our own people that are experts at radio.”
“We don’t call ourselves experts,” disclaimed Bob. “But I’m sure we can set your apparatus up so that you’ll have no trouble in receiving.”
“By the way,” remarked Miss Berwick, “you remember Dan Cassey?”
“Will I ever forget him?” replied Bob, and before him rose that night of storm and darkness when he had been engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the scoundrel.