“Sis turned up the coin—and it was—me!
“She jumped up and ran away laughing, then, and Hiliary sat still quite a while, as if he weren’t exactly sure. I was hanging my head ashamed and afraid. But then he laughed and put his arms around me and kissed me. He was a little bashful.
“‘I guess God put that into sis’s head,’ he said.
“‘I want to marry one of you girls, but hanged if I know which one to ask’”
“That is another thing people believed then—that God commanded things in that way, and that one would be disobeying Him not to do them.
“My, but I was happy! I didn’t know till that instant that I cared so much for him. I must have fainted for a few minutes. When I came to, sis was there again with something damp on my face. At first I couldn’t see. I heard Hiliary say, ‘But what if it had been you?’
“‘I wouldn’t have had you,’ said sis.
“‘You would have broken your word?’
“‘Certainly—rather than marry you!’