After pulling forth the second sheet, she spread it out and read it through without looking up.
"Miss Tessibel Skinner:
"It is necessary for you to attend a church meeting next Wednesday afternoon at three o'clock in the chapel. Please oblige,
"Silander Griggs, Pastor."
"Anything much?" demanded the dwarf, interestedly.
"Nope, Andy, only a note askin' me to come to church tomorrow afternoon, but I jest can't go, Andy!... I can't! I ain't been fer two Sundays, now, 'cause I been feelin' so bad."
She raised her eyes full of misery to meet Andy's sympathetic gaze. How could she go after that awful scene nearly three weeks before with Madelene and Frederick? She never could face the Waldstricker family again.
"I won't never go to church, ever any more," she mourned presently.
"Mebbe not, dear," returned the dwarf, smothered in his throat. "An' the church'll be worser off'n you!"
Troubled in spirit, Tess considered the letter a few minutes.