Annie Kilburn - Page 133/183

"No, no," gasped the child intensely; "with _you_!" and she pushed her

hand into Annie's, and held fast to it.

Annie's question had been suggested by a belated reluctance to appear

before so much of Hatboro' in charge of the minister's child. But now she

could not retreat, and with Idella's hand in hers she advanced blushing up

the aisle to her pew.