I expect that's it."
The other made no reply.
"Well, I don't know much about such things. I was loose brought up; but
I've a friend"--Laura was before his eyes--"that says religion's all
right, and long ago as I can remember my mother used to pray three times
a day--with grace at meals, too. I know there's a lot in it for them
that need it; and there seems to be a lot of folks needing it, if I'm to
judge by folks down there at Jansen, specially when there's the laying-on
of hands and the Healing Springs. Oh, that was a pigsty game, Scranton,
that about God giving you the Healing Springs, like Moses and the rock!
Why, I discovered them springs myself two years ago, before I went South,
and I guess God wasn't helping me any--not after I've kept out of His way
as I have. But, anyhow, religion's real; that's my sense of it; and you
can get it, I bet, if you try. I've seen it got. A friend of mine got
it--got it under your preaching; not from you; but you was the accident
that brought it about, I expect. It's funny--it's merakilous, but it's
so.
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