f the
work-shops of Chautauqua; and there were _so_ many things she wanted to
know!

CHAPTER XII.

FLOSSY AT SCHOOL.

She hadn't the least idea who they were, but, like an earnest little
diplomatist, she set to work to find out.

"I started for the auditorium," she said. "I wanted to hear Dr. Walden,
but he has had time to make a long speech and get through since I first
started. I think it must be nearly eleven."

"No," they said laughing, "it is only half past ten." Her wanderings had
not been so long as they seemed; but it was hardly worth while to try to
hear anything from him now, she would not be at all likely to get a
seat; and, besides, his time was nearly over. She would better wait and
go down with them in time for Mrs. Miller.

"We were obliged to miss Dr. Walden," the elder lady explained. "We
disliked to very much; probably it was as instructive as anything we
shall get; but we had work that had to be done, so we ran away."

"Do you have to bring work to Chautauqua with you?" Flossy asked, with
insinuating sweetness. "How very busy you must be! I would have tried to
run away from my work for two weeks if I had been you."

The bright little hostess laughed.

"Chautauqua _makes_ work," she said, "and somebody has to get ready for
it. This lady beside me expects an overwhelming Sabbath class here, and
much time has to be given to the lesson. We lesser mortals are
ostensibly going to help her, but in reality we are going to look and
see how she does it."

"Have you found out?" Flossy asked in a little tremor of delight. This
was what she wanted, to know how to do it all.

The lady who had been pointed out as teacher answered her quickly, so
far as her words could be said to be an answer:

"Are you a Sabbath-school teacher?"

"No," Flossy said, flushing and feeling like a naughty child whose
curiosity had led her into mischief. "No, I am not _anything_, but I
want to be; I don't know how to work at all in any way, but I want to
learn."

"Are you looking for work to do for the Master?" the same lady asked,
with a sweet cheery voice and smile, not at all as if this were a
subject which she must touch cautiously.

"Yes," Flossy said, her cheeks all in a glow. "She did not know how to
work, she had but just found out that she wanted to; indeed she had but
yesterday known anything of Him."

Then this unusual company of ladies came with one consent and eager eyes
and voices and took her h