Besides , I thought Mrs. Allan required a slight snub . Ministers ' wives are rather apt to think they can run everything and everybody , if they are not wholesomely corrected now and again . `` It is not what I like best that must be considered , Mrs. Allan , '' I said rebukingly . `` It is what is best for those boys . I feel that I shall be best for THEM . '' `` Oh , I 've no doubt of that , Miss MacPherson , '' said Mrs. Allan amiably . It was a fib for her , minister 's wife though she was . She HAD doubt . She thought I would be a dismal failure as teacher of a boys ' class . But I was not . I am not often a dismal failure when I make up my mind to do a thing . I am noted for that . `` It is wonderful what a reformation you have worked in that class , Miss MacPherson -- wonderful , '' said the Rev. Mr. Allan some weeks later . He did n't mean to show how amazing a thing he thought it that an old maid noted for being a man hater should have managed it , but his face betrayed him . `` Where does Jimmy Spencer live ? '' I asked him crisply . `` He came one Sunday three weeks ago and has n't been back since . I mean to find out why . '' Mr. Allan coughed . `` I believe he is hired as handy boy with Alexander Abraham Bennett , out on the White Sands road , '' he said .
`` Then I am going out to Alexander Abraham Bennett 's XXXXX the White Sands road to see why Jimmy Spencer does n't come to Sunday school , '' I said firmly .
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