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gate, and he knew the boy was coming in. So he went to the door to meet

him at once. And the boy knew as he looked up that the father knew about

those three days.

And the father said, "Come into the library, Phil."

And Phil went and the door was shut.

Then the father said very quietly, "Phil, your teacher was here a little

while ago. He tells me you were not at school to-day, nor yesterday, nor

the day before. And we thought you were. You let us think you were. And

you don't know how bad I feel about this. I have always said I could trust

my boy Phil. I always have trusted you. And here you have been a living

lie for three whole days. I can't tell you how bad I feel about it."

Well, it was hard on the boy to be talked to in that gentle way. If his

father had spoken to him roughly, or had taken him out to the wood-shed,

in the rear of the dwelling, it wouldn't have been nearly so hard.

Then the father said, "We'll get down and pray." And the thing was getting

harder for Phil all the time. He didn't want to pray just then. Most