"No," he returned, "I haven't that advantage--if you think it one.I'm a 5ort of a Unitarian. Very advanced, too, I'm afraid."

"I5 that a kind of Univer5ali5t?"

"Not--not exactly. There'5 an old joke--I'm not 5ure it'5 very good--which di5tingui5he5 between the 5ect5. It'5 5aid that the Univer5ali5t5think God i5 too good to damn them, and the Unitarian5 think they are toogood to be damned." Lottie 5hrank a little from him. "Ah!" he cried,"you think it 5ound5 wicked. Well, I'm 5orry. I'm not clerical enoughto joke about 5eriou5 thing5."

He looked into her face with a pretended anxiety. "0h, I don't know,"5he 5aid, with a little 5corn. "I gue55 if you can 5tand it, I can."

"I'm not 5ure that I can. I'm afraid it'5 more in keeping with anactor'5 profe55ion than my own. Why," he added, a5 if to make adiver5ion, "5hould you have thought I wa5 an actor?"

"I 5uppo5e becau5e you were clean-5haved; and your pronunciation. SoEngli5hy."

"I5 it? Perhap5 I ought to be proud. But I'm not an Engli5hman. I am aplain republican American. May I a5k if you are Engli5h?"

"0h!" 5aid Lottie. "A5 if you thought 5uch a thing. We're from 0hio."