The two said no more, for as Aunt Judy had prognosticated, callers came in streams.
The Hilldale people were neighborly, and they also had their due share of human curiosity.
The minister was taken charge of by Lamb, who carried the interview through successfully, although with difficulty repressing a strong impulse to pitch the visitor out of the window.
For the clergyman, without saying it in so many words, implied, or seemed to imply, that a young woman who proposed to edit the marriage ceremony ought reasonably to expect battle, murder, and sudden death to pursue her course.
Burton Lamb tactfully refrained from any reply or comment on these innuendoes, and tried to keep the conversation on the Pennington tragedy rather than their own.
But Mr. Garner kept at it.
“You know,” he sai
