Outside, Bessie turned to her companions.
"I thought it would be a great lark to have just this happen, but somehow it's not much fun to have those men treated so. Aren't they wonderful? Let's defend them all over town."
"We sure will!" the girls answered.
And so youth and old age started at precisely the same moment, to arouse opposite sentiments in Ashfield, for Venna's Mormon friends.
CHAPTER X.
To a materialist, a miracle is an impossible contradiction to Nature. To the spiritually minded, it is the expression of that Higher Power which controls Nature.
Until Anna and her husband came home, Venna found herself entirely alone with her visitors. Those were two days to be remembered. It was steadily storming without, so they all stayed indoors, and talked and discussed from morning until night. Doubts in her mind that had remained unanswered for years, these two young preachers answered satisfactorily, always going to the Bible to show the authority for their claims.
Venna's interest pleased them and they never tired of her constant queries.
"You have great patience," said Venna, smiling.
"It takes no patience to answer questions," returned Brother Hallock. "The patience is required when no one is interested enough to ask them."