“I know the mountain;” Marion said, reaching out, and clasping Ruth’s hand.  “The name of it is Calvary, it is safe, and it is sufficient for us all.  Ruthie, we three are together in this thing.”

What those girls said to each other then and there is sacred to them.  But if I could, I would tell you something of the joy they felt.

Flossy still leaned over the railing, a small quiet speck in the moonlight.  Marion kept turning her head in her direction.  “Our poor little Flossy would not understand much about this experience, I suppose,” she said at last; “she is such a child, and yet, I don’t know—­sometimes I have fancied that she thinks more than we give her credit for.  That at least she has lately.”

“Let us tell her, anyway,” Eurie, said, “we can’t know what good it may do.  If we had not been so dreadfully afraid of each other, during the last few days, we might have helped each other a good deal; for my part, I have learned a lesson on which I mean to practice.”

Ruth looked up quickly, a rare smile in her eyes; she opened her lips to speak to them, then seemed to change her mind and raised her voice:  “Flossy!” And Flossy came at her call.

“Come here,” Ruth said, withdrawing her hand from Marion’s, and winding her arm around the small figure beside her.

“Flossy, the girls have had our very experience all by themselves, and they want to know how long it is since you began to think about this matter for yourself.”

Flossy turned her soft blue eyes on Marion.

“The very night we came, Marion, and you made me come to the meeting in the rain, you remember?  I heard that which I knew would never let me rest again, until I understood it and had it for my own.  But I was very ignorant, and foolish, and I blundered along in the dark for three mortal days!  After that Jesus found me, and I have known since what it is to live in the light.”

“A Christian experience of ten whole days!” Eurie said.  Of course she was the first one to rise from her surprise and get possession of her tongue.

“Flossy, you have had a chance to get a good way ahead instead of being behind, as we thought.  You will have to show us the way.”

“Isn’t this just wonderful!” broke forth Marion, suddenly, an overwhelming sense coming over her, of the new relations that they four would henceforth bear to each other.  “Why, girls, what would they say up there at the stand, if they could know what has come to each of us!  I almost feel like going back and telling them all.  Just think what a delight it would be to Dr. Vincent, and Dr. Deems, and, oh, to all of them.  Isn’t it queer to think how well we know them all, and they are not aware of our existence?”

“I don’t believe people will have to wait to be introduced to each other when they get to heaven,” Eurie said; “that is one of the first things I am going to do when I get there; hunt up some of these Chautauqua people and cultivate their acquaintance.”