"Well, Sissy, I am right glad you take the trouble to run over and see me this morning," he cries genially, trying to take her patricianly gloved hand in his.
"Mr. Kruger," she says shortly, "I fear the telegram I gave you did not reach my father. Have you heard anything of him? Do you know where he is?"
"Yes," replies the complaisant Lot. "I reckon he is in one of the outlying mining camps. If so, he won't be here for a day or two yit, though he has been communicated with."
"Oh!" ejaculates the girl; "then I shall be disappointed again?"
"Indeed! How?" says the man rather curiously, noting that the lovely blue eyes are teary as they look into his.
"I am going to the Episcopal Church. I had hoped to meet my father there."
"You expect—to meet your dad—thar?" gasps Kruger, as if the girl's information took away his breath.
"Yes, certainly! My father has been an Episcopalian all his life. I naturally expect to meet him at the Episcopal Church."
"Oh—your—father—has—been—an Episcopal—all his life," echoes Lot, apparently a little dazed. Then he goes on genially: "Wa-all, as you are certain of not seeing your dad among the Episcopals, perhaps you'd better go up this morning to our great Tabernacle, where President Young will make an address that'll learn you somethin'." He apparently now has no wish to conceal that he is a Latter-Day Saint.
"Thank you," replies the girl, with a little mocking smile. "I am an Episcopalian as well as my father," and she rejoins the wondering Ollie, who has by this time crossed the street; as she moves away with her escort, she thinks she hears a low chuckle from the genial Kruger.