The next morning, after breakfast, on his way home from the post-office, the minister stopped in at Dr. Hunter's office. The Doctor was reading a newspaper.
Mr. Holt took a chair in silence.
The Doctor laid down the paper and eyed him quizzically, and then slowly shook his head.
“I don't know about you ministers,” he said. “I attended the funeral; I heard the biographical discourse; I understand it gave great satisfaction; I have reflected on it over night; and now, what I want to know is, what on earth 'there was in it about Uncle Capen.”
The minister smiled.
“I think,” he replied, “that all that I said about Uncle Capen was strictly true.”