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people don't about that time.

And they got down on their knees, side by side. And the father poured out

his heart in prayer. And the boy listened. Somehow he saw himself in the

looking-glass of his knee-joints as he hadn't before. It is queer about

that mirror of the knee-joints, the things you see in it. Most people

don't like to use it much. And they got up from their knees. The father's

eyes were wet. And Phil's eyes were not dry.

Then the father said, "My boy, there's a law of life, that where there is

sin there is suffering. You can't get those two things apart. Wherever

there is suffering there has been sin, somewhere, by somebody. And

wherever there is sin there will be suffering, for some one, somewhere;

and likely most for those closest to you."

"Now," he said, "my boy, you have done wrong. So we'll do this. You go

up-stairs to the attic. I'll make a little bed for you there in the

corner. We'll bring your meals up to you at the usual times. And you stay

up in the attic three days and three nights, as long as you've been a