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 like a thief in the night . '' `` But it tells you another thing in the Bible , too , '' said Cecily eagerly . `` It says nobody knows when the Judgment Day is to come -- not even the angels in heaven . Now , if the angels in heaven do n't know it , do you suppose the editor of the Enterprise can know it -- and him a Grit , too ? '' `` I guess he knows as much about it as a Tory would , '' retorted the Story Girl . Uncle Roger was a Liberal and Uncle Alec a Conservative , and the girls held fast to the political traditions of their respective households . `` But it is n't really the Enterprise editor at all who is saying it -- it 's a man in the States who claims to be a prophet . If he IS a prophet perhaps he has found out somehow . ''
`` And it 's XXXXX the paper , too , and that 's printed as well as the Bible , '' said Dan .
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