I told him frankly that I had been rather lax in that matter,especially at college. I occasionally went to sleep in the chapel onSunday, when I was not reading some entertaining book. He then askedwho the preacher was, and when I told him, he remarked that I was notso much to blame as he had supposed.

"Have you," he went on, "ever stolen, or told any lie?"

I occasionally was able to say no, except admitting as to the first, usual college"conveyances," and as to the last, an occasional "blinder" to theprofessors. He always was gracious enough to say that these could beoverlooked as incident to the occasion.