Then she sprang up and began to undress herself rapidly.
"I don't see how you can bring yourself back to earth, Alva, after you have felt like that."
Alva smiled. "But we must live on the earth, Lassie, and be of the earth. We are made for the earth. God gave us our souls, and he gave us our bodies, too. And he meant both to work together."
Lassie sat still and meditative. She had herself been carried out beyond her depth and could not get back easily. She was, in truth, a little dizzy.
CHAPTER XI
THE WAR-PATH
Mrs. Ray in the post-office managed to keep track of Mrs. O'Neil's personal sweeping of the Lathbun bedroom until it was terminated. Then she left the United States Government's appointment in charge of Mr. Ray's first wife's youngest daughter, and hied herself down the hill.
Mary Cody and Mrs. O'Neil were in the kitchen discussing the results of the investigation when she entered.
"Well, you'll never guess what I found," said the landlord's wife; "you'd never guess if you guessed till Doomsday."