That evening after dinner at the Babcock home Ruth announced that she was going back to the bank. "I'm sorry that they want you to come to the bank and work at night," said her father. "This work that I am going to do tonight is a little work I want to do for myself. Mr. Stover did not tell me to do it." "I hope you will not be out late." Before going, Ruth went to her room and secured a pillow slip and a sheet; in the pillow slip she cut eyes and a mouth vent for breathing. She wrapped the pillow slip and sheet in a paper which she carried under her arm. When she reached the bank she locked herself in her office and waited for the arrival of the janitor. It was eight-thirty when he came. Ruth could hear him talking frequently to himself as he worked. Once she heard him say, "Who's afeared of them Kluxers, anyway. I'm mighty shuah I ain't." Ruth put on her robe and mask and viewed herself in the mirror. She suppressed a laugh. When she heard Rastus emptying the water she went out of the door that opened directly into the corridor and waited behind the elevator cage which was standing at the bottom of the shaft. Soon Rastus came out and when near the elevator Ruth stepped from behind it. Rastus threw up both his hands and exclaimed, "Lawd, Lawd!" and began to back off. The white robed figure wearing a white mask slowly followed him. One arm under the robe was lifted toward him. He was sure the Klansman had a revolver in his hand, as he backed away from the approaching figure he said, "Please don't shoot me, I ain't done nothin', Mistah Ku Klux--honest to Gawd, I ain't." "You have refused to support your pastor." The white robed figure spoke in a sepulchral voice. "I'se only missed payin' one Sunday and that's a fact. If you will let me go this time I'll pay evah Sunday." "You may have one more chance. Now face the wall and don't look around until you have counted three hundred. My final warning to you is beware, beware, beware!" The negro, as directed, faced the wall and began to count. Ruth removed her robe and mask as she passed through the outer entrance to the corridor and hastened to the street intersection where she caught a car. The next morning it was ten o'clock before Rastus made his appearance at the bank. "Rastus, you are a little late," said Stover. "Yes, sah, Mr. Stover, I'se late. I had a terrible sperience last night that's kinda made me feel flober-gasted." "What was the trouble, Rastus?" asked Stover. "I was visited by the Ku Klux Klan." "What, are you telling the truth?" Stover asked with interest. The bank employees all left their work and gathered around Rastus. "Honest to Gawd, I'se tellin' the truf. I'd jest finished moppin' and sta'ted home, when out from behind the elevator stepped one of them Ku Kluxers." "Did he have a mask on?" someone asked. "Yes, sah; he had a mask on." "Was there just one?" the cashier asked. "Jest one in the hall, but I heard a lot of 'em outside the doah."