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They
now
entered
into
the
narrow
side
street
from
which
they
had
emerged
and
walking
as
many
as
a
dozen
doors
from
the
corner
,
entered
the
door
of
a
yellow
single-story
wooden
building
,
the
large
window
and
the
two
glass
panes
in
the
central
door
of
which
had
been
painted
a
gray-white
.
Across
both
windows
and
the
smaller
panels
in
the
double
door
had
been
painted
:
"
The
Door
of
Hope
.
Bethel
Independent
Mission
.
Meetings
Every
Wednesday
and
Saturday
night
,
8
to
10
Sundays
at
11
,
3
and
8
.
Everybody
Welcome
.
"
Under
this
legend
on
each
window
were
printed
the
words
:
"
God
is
Love
,
"
and
below
this
again
,
in
smaller
type
:
"
How
Long
Since
You
Wrote
to
Mother
?
"
The
small
company
entered
the
yellow
unprepossessing
door
and
disappeared
.
That
such
a
family
,
thus
cursorily
presented
,
might
have
a
different
and
somewhat
peculiar
history
could
well
be
anticipated
,
and
it
would
be
true
.
Indeed
,
this
one
presented
one
of
those
anomalies
of
psychic
and
social
reflex
and
motivation
such
as
would
tax
the
skill
of
not
only
the
psychologist
but
the
chemist
and
physicist
as
well
,
to
unravel
.
To
begin
with
,
Asa
Griffiths
,
the
father
,
was
one
of
those
poorly
integrated
and
correlated
organisms
,
the
product
of
an
environment
and
a
religious
theory
,
but
with
no
guiding
or
mental
insight
of
his
own
,
yet
sensitive
and
therefore
highly
emotional
and
without
any
practical
sense
whatsoever
.
Indeed
it
would
be
hard
to
make
clear
just
how
life
appealed
to
him
,
or
what
the
true
hue
of
his
emotional
responses
was
.
On
the
other
hand
,
as
has
been
indicated
,
his
wife
was
of
a
firmer
texture
but
with
scarcely
any
truer
or
more
practical
insight
into
anything
.
The
history
of
this
man
and
his
wife
is
of
no
particular
interest
here
save
as
it
affected
their
boy
of
twelve
,
Clyde
Griffiths
.
This
youth
,
aside
from
a
certain
emotionalism
and
exotic
sense
of
romance
which
characterized
him
,
and
which
he
took
more
from
his
father
than
from
his
mother
,
brought
a
more
vivid
and
intelligent
imagination
to
things
,
and
was
constantly
thinking
of
how
he
might
better
himself
,
if
he
had
a
chance
;
places
to
which
he
might
go
,
things
he
might
see
,
and
how
differently
he
might
live
,
if
only
this
,
that
and
the
other
things
were
true
.
The
principal
thing
that
troubled
Clyde
up
to
his
fifteenth
year
,
and
for
long
after
in
retrospect
,
was
that
the
calling
or
profession
of
his
parents
was
the
shabby
thing
that
it
appeared
to
be
in
the
eyes
of
others
.
For
so
often
throughout
his
youth
in
different
cities
in
which
his
parents
had
conducted
a
mission
or
spoken
on
the
streets
--
Grand
Rapids
,
Detroit
,
Milwaukee
,
Chicago
,
lastly
Kansas
City
--
it
had
been
obvious
that
people
,
at
least
the
boys
and
girls
he
encountered
,
looked
down
upon
him
and
his
brothers
and
sisters
for
being
the
children
of
such
parents
.
On
several
occasions
,
and
much
against
the
mood
of
his
parents
,
who
never
countenanced
such
exhibitions
of
temper
,
he
had
stopped
to
fight
with
one
or
another
of
these
boys
.
But
always
,
beaten
or
victorious
,
he
had
been
conscious
of
the
fact
that
the
work
his
parents
did
was
not
satisfactory
to
others
--
shabby
,
trivial
.
And
always
he
was
thinking
of
what
he
would
do
,
once
he
reached
the
place
where
he
could
get
away
.
For
Clyde
's
parents
had
proved
impractical
in
the
matter
of
the
future
of
their
children
.
They
did
not
understand
the
importance
or
the
essential
necessity
for
some
form
of
practical
or
professional
training
for
each
and
every
one
of
their
young
ones
.
Instead
,
being
wrapped
up
in
the
notion
of
evangelizing
the
world
,
they
had
neglected
to
keep
their
children
in
school
in
any
one
place
.
They
had
moved
here
and
there
,
sometimes
in
the
very
midst
of
an
advantageous
school
season
,
because
of
a
larger
and
better
religious
field
in
which
to
work
.
And
there
were
times
,
when
,
the
work
proving
highly
unprofitable
and
Asa
being
unable
to
make
much
money
at
the
two
things
he
most
understood
--
gardening
and
canvassing
for
one
invention
or
another
--
they
were
quite
without
sufficient
food
or
decent
clothes
,
and
the
children
could
not
go
to
school
.
In
the
face
of
such
situations
as
these
,
whatever
the
children
might
think
,
Asa
and
his
wife
remained
as
optimistic
as
ever
,
or
they
insisted
to
themselves
that
they
were
,
and
had
unwavering
faith
in
the
Lord
and
His
intention
to
provide
.
The
combination
home
and
mission
which
this
family
occupied
was
dreary
enough
in
most
of
its
phases
to
discourage
the
average
youth
or
girl
of
any
spirit
.
It
consisted
in
its
entirety
of
one
long
store
floor
in
an
old
and
decidedly
colorless
and
inartistic
wooden
building
which
was
situated
in
that
part
of
Kansas
City
which
lies
north
of
Independence
Boulevard
and
west
of
Troost
Avenue
,
the
exact
street
or
place
being
called
Bickel
,
a
very
short
thoroughfare
opening
off
Missouri
Avenue
,
a
somewhat
more
lengthy
but
no
less
nondescript
highway
.
And
the
entire
neighborhood
in
which
it
stood
was
very
faintly
and
yet
not
agreeably
redolent
of
a
commercial
life
which
had
long
since
moved
farther
south
,
if
not
west
.
It
was
some
five
blocks
from
the
spot
on
which
twice
a
week
the
open
air
meetings
of
these
religious
enthusiasts
and
proselytizers
were
held
.
And
it
was
the
ground
floor
of
this
building
,
looking
out
into
Bickel
Street
at
the
front
and
some
dreary
back
yards
of
equally
dreary
frame
houses
,
which
was
divided
at
the
front
into
a
hall
forty
by
twenty-five
feet
in
size
,
in
which
had
been
placed
some
sixty
collapsible
wood
chairs
,
a
lectern
,
a
map
of
Palestine
or
the
Holy
Land
,
and
for
wall
decorations
some
twenty-five
printed
but
unframed
mottoes
which
read
in
part
:
