It had been her mother 's , and Salome read a chapter in it every night , although she never dared to let Judith see her doing it . When she limped out into the kitchen , Judith looked up with a hard face . A flame of sullen anger glowed in her dark eyes , and she went into the sitting-room and shut the door , as if by that act she were shutting her sister for evermore out of her heart and life . Salome , strung up to the last pitch of nervous tension , felt intuitively the significance of that closed door . For a moment she wavered -- oh , she could not go against Judith ! She was all but turning back to her room when Lionel Hezekiah came running in , and paused to look at her admiringly . `` You look just bully , Aunt Salome , '' he said . `` Where are you going ? '' `` Do n't use that word , Lionel Hezekiah , '' pleaded Salome . `` I 'm going to church . '' `` Take me with you , '' said Lionel Hezekiah promptly . Salome shook her head . `` I ca n't , dear . Your Aunt Judith would n't like it . Perhaps she will let you go after a while . Now do be a good boy while I am away , wo n't you ? Do n't do any naughty things . '' `` I wo n't do them if I know they 're naughty , '' conceded Lionel Hezekiah . `` But that 's just the trouble ; I do n't know what 's naughty and what ai n't . Prob ` ly if I went to Sunday school I 'd find out . ''
XXXXX limped out of the yard and down the lane bordered by its asters and goldenrod .
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