“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.”
[4] Reprinted from THE CENTURY for August, 1883, and included in the author’s volume of short stories “Five Hundred Dollars,” published by Little, Brown & Company, Boston.
BEAUTY IN EDEN
BY ALFRED NOYES
WHEN Beauty, white