“Well, did he gape around at his neighbors, and then fall asleep, like the rest of the hypocrites who go there?”
“No; I must tell you the truth.”
“Let’s have it, then.”
“I watched him and never took my eyes off him, and I tell you he’s in earnest.”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean he’s among them that believe there’s a God, and have made up their mind to serve him.”
“That’ll do,” said the master. “You have made your report, and now you may go.”
The next night there was a new watchman around the rich infidel’s house. It was he who went to church on a Sunday.