He trudged back to a little weather-worn, tumble-down building on the other side of his new enterprise, and knocked. Such a dear little old fat woman in a bright calico dress, and with a wide white frill to her cap, answered his knock. He chuckled inwardly, and said at once: "I guess you're the woman what's going to let me boil my coffee on your stove, and warm a pie now and then, ain't you?" "Whatever is the lad talking about?" asked the bewildered old lady. "Why--" said Tode, conscious that he had made a very unbusiness-like opening, and he begun at the beginning, and told her his story. "Well now, I never!" said the woman, sinking into a chair. "No, I never did in all my life! And so you left that there place, because you wasn't going to give bottles to your neighbors no longer, and now you're going into business for yourself? Well, well, the land knows I wish there wasn't no bottles to put to 'em--and then they wouldn't be put, you know; and if there's anything I _do_ pray for with all my might and main, next to prayin' that my two boys would let the bottles alone--which I'm afraid they don't, and more's the pity--it's that the bottles will all get clean smashed up one of these days, in His own good time you know." Tode turned upon her an eager, questioning look. "Who do you pray to?" he asked, abruptly. "Why, bless the boy! I ain't a heathen, you know, to bow down to wood and stone, the work of men's hands, and them things as it were. I pray to the dear Lord that made me, and died for me too, and, for the matter of that, lives for me all the time." A bright color glowed in Tode's cheek, and a bright fire sparkled in his eye. "I know him," he said, briefly and earnestly. "Now, do you, though?" said the little old lady, as eager and earnest as himself, "and do you pray to him?" Tode gravely bowed his head. "Then I'll let you have my stove and my coffee-pot, and my oven, and welcome, and I'll look after the coffee and the pies now and then myself. I'll give you a lift as sure as I have a coffee-pot to lend. Like enough you're one of the Lord's own, and have been sent right straight here for me to give a cup of cold water to, you know, or to look after your coffee for you, and it's all the same, you know, so you do it in the name of a disciple."