CHAPTER II.



              DOROTHY 'S CONVERSION.

  "Oh, a tennis court ! How glorious 1" exclaimed
Dorothy next morning as she stepped out on the porch
and caught her first glimpse of the side lawn.
  Sterling considered it a special providence that nu
intervening fence separated the two residences, and
nearly every afternoon found him on the tennis
grounds, an eager contestant in the game with Dor-
othy.
  "Good-bye, Mr. Sterling," she said to him one after..
noon at the close of the game. "I must hurry in and
do some packing. I shall turn traveler tomorrow."
  "What-going away" he asked with a startled ex-
pression.
  "Yes, I am  going to Chicago for a few weeks to
visit a girl friend."
  The light fled fromn the sky for Sterling. For thie
next three weeks not only Dorothy, but the center of
the universe seemed to him to be located in Chicago.
  During Dorothy's visit a crisis occurred in her life.
'While attending a church service with her girl friend
she heard a strange sermon. How new and startling
it sounded.  The preacher's theme was "Salvation
Through Christ", and she heard things she had never