gasped Felicity , clutching the Story Girl 's hand . Cecily 's prayer had been answered . Excitement had come with a vengeance , and under its stress Felicity had spoken first . But this , like the breaking of the cup , had no significance for us at the moment . The Story Girl snatched the paper and read the announcement to a group on which sudden , tense silence had fallen . Under a sensational headline , `` The Last Trump will sound at Two O'clock To-morrow , '' was a paragraph to the effect that the leader of a certain noted sect in the United States had predicted that August twelfth would be the Judgment Day , and that all his numerous followers were preparing for the dread event by prayer , fasting , and the making of appropriate white garments for ascension robes . I laugh at the remembrance now -- until I recall the real horror of fear that enwrapped us in that sunny orchard that August morning of long ago ; and then I laugh no more . We were only children , be it remembered , with a very firm and simple faith that grown people knew much more than we did , and a rooted conviction that whatever you read in a newspaper must be true . If the Daily Enterprise said that August twelfth was to be the Judgment Day how were you going to get around it ? `` Do you believe it , Sara Stanley ? '' persisted Felicity . `` DO you ? '' `` No -- no , I do n't believe a word of it , '' said the Story Girl . But for once her voice failed to carry conviction -- or , rather , it carried conviction of the very opposite kind . It was borne in upon our miserable minds that if the Story Girl did not altogether believe it was true she believed it might be true ; and the possibility was almost as dreadful as the certainty . `` It CA N'T be true , '' said Sara Ray , seeking refuge , as usual , in tears . `` Why , everything looks just the same . Things COULD N'T look the same if the Judgment Day was going to be to-morrow . '' `` But that 's just the way it 's to come , '' I said uncomfortably . `` It tells you in the Bible .
It 's to come just XXXXX a thief in the night . ''
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