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"I didn't s'pose bein' sent up was goin' to skeer all the spirit out of you." "It didn't, Nan, but it's been the puttin' of a new kind of spirit into me. I've been converted, Nan." "What?" gasped Mrs. Kimper. "Thunder!" exclaimed Tom, after a hard laugh. "You goin' to be a shoutin' Methodist? Won't that be bully to tell the fellers in the village?"
Sam Kimper lapsed into silence, and the judge felt uncomfortable. At last Sam exclaimed, "I feel as if it would take a big prayer and thanksgiving meeting to tell all that's in my mind." "A very good idea," said the judge; "and, as you have the very people present who should take part in it, I will make haste to remove all outside influence."
Fuel was added to the fire of her discontent when her mother announced one morning that Jane Kimper had arrived and would assist the couple at their sewing. To Eleanor, Jane represented the Kimper family, the head of which was the cause of Reynolds Bartram's extraordinary course.
"Tom," said Sam Kimper to his eldest son one morning after breakfast, "I wish you'd walk along to the shop with me. There's somethin' I want to talk about." Tom wanted to go somewhere else; what boy doesn't, when his parents have anything for him to do? Nevertheless, the young man finally obeyed his father, and the two left the house together.
Sam began work upon the bit of repairing which he had taken from the shoemaker's hands, and although it was not of the routine nature which all of his jail-work had placed in his hands, he knew enough of the requirements of an ordinary shoe to do what was necessary. While he was working, the room suddenly darkened, and as he looked up he saw Mrs. Judge Prency herself. "Why it's Mr. Kimper!
The honest truth is, I did not want to be a Christian myself, and had resisted all the arguments I had heard; but I was helpless when dear friends told me that nothing was impossible to me that was being accomplished by a common fellow like Sam Kimper." "Nothing is impossible to him that believes," said the deacon, finding his tongue for a moment.
"We'll go around by the back way, so nobody'll see either of you, if you don't want them to. I'll take Samuel along with me, and you can drop in wherever you think best, Mrs. Kimper. I'm not going back on any man who is going to turn over a new leaf. Come along."
I remember the time, only a year or two ago, while I was at school, when you would have been horrified if I'd had anything to do with a creature like that." "You were a child then, my dear; you're a woman now. That girl is the daughter of the poor fellow " "Sam Kimper? that you and father talk of so frequently? Yes, I know; she was a horrid little thing in school, two classes below me.
"Oh, I don't mean that you lie," explained the angry defender of the faith. "If you heard Bartram say it, he did say it, of course. But there's something wrong somewhere. The minister's rather lost his head over Sam Kimper, just because the wretch isn't back in his old ways again, and he's got a new notion in his head about how the gospel ought to be preached.
"Why, you ain't ever done such a thing in your life, Sam!" said Mrs. Kimper, with a feeble giggle. "More's the shame to me; but it's never too late to mend. When'll Billy get home, an' Tom?" "Goodness knows; Billy gets kep' in so much, an' Tom plays hookey so often, that I don't ever expect either of 'em much 'fore supper-time. They talk of sendin' Tom to the Reform School if he don't stop."
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