"That will be splendid! Oh, Lol, your Mr. Edmonds will think when he sees us all of that verse in the Scriptures, 'Go out into the highways and byways and call the lame, the halt and the blind.'"
When they paused to say good-bye at the parting of the ways Ivy said with a sudden rush of words:
"Now, Lol, don't go to thinking I'm a heroine because I proposed to keep in the background for once! You don't know how I hesitated and hated it."
"Don't you remember your story about the blooming flowers and the singing birds?"
"Oh, Laura, it's so much easier for me to write about kind deeds than to do them!"
"I only wish the rest of us Happy-Go-Luckys may do as well when the time comes!" returned Laura.
CHAPTER XIV
THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
"Come here, Nettie," cried Laura; "I'll plait your hair so it will be wavy for to-night, and then I want you to take a note to Alene."