Carolyn of the Corners

by Ruth Belmore Endicott

“Yes, Uncle Joe.”

The frank answer hit Mr. Stagg harder than he would have cared to acknowledge.

“Why?” he queried.

“Because Prince never said a word to hurt me in his life!” said Carolyn May, sobbing.

The man was silenced. He felt in his inmost heart that he had been judged.

CHAPTER IX—PRINCE AWAKENS THE CORNERS

Camp-meeting time was over, and the church at The Corners was to open for its regular Sunday services.

“Both Satan and the parson have had a vacation,” said Mr. Stagg, “and now they can tackle each other again and see which’ll get the strangle hold ’twixt now and revival time.”

“You should not say such things, especially before the child, Joseph Stagg,” admonished Aunty Rose.

Carolyn May, however, seemed not to have heard Uncle Joe’s pessimistic remark; she was too greatly excited by the prospect of Sunday-school. And the very next week-day school would begin!