d very gayly decorated, seemed still, so far as
Rollo could get a glimpse of it through the crowds of people, only to
denote that it was the entrance to some very splendid public edifice,
without at all indicating the nature of the purposes to which it was
devoted.

The immense concourse of people which were pouring into the Hippodrome
divided themselves at the gates into two portions, and passed up an
ascent to enter at side doors. Rollo and Jane, following their guides,
went toward the right. They observed that the father of Adrienne and
Antoine stopped at a little window near the entrance, to pay the price
of admission for himself and wife and his two children and to get the
tickets. He paid full price for his two children, and so took four full
tickets. Rollo and Jane did not see him pay the money. They only
observed that there was a crowd at the little window, and they saw
Antoine's father take the tickets. They did not know what this meant,
however; but they followed on. When they all came to the doorway which
led up to the ranges of seats, the man whose duty it was to take the
tickets supposed that the four children all belonged to the same family,
and that they had been admitted at half price, and that, accordingly,
two of the tickets were for the father and mother, and the other two for
the four children. So he let them all pass on together, especially as
there was, at that time, such a throng of people crowding in that there
was no time to stop and make any inquiries.

Rollo and Jane were carried along by the current up a flight of stairs,
which came out among the ranges of seats; and after moving along for
some distance till they came to a vacancy they sat down, and began to
look around and survey the spacious and splendid interior into which
they had entered. They were at once overwhelmed with the magnificence of
the spectacle which was presented to view. Instead of a church, they
found a vast open area extended before them, surrounded with long
ranges of seats, and laid out in the interior in the most graceful and
beautiful manner.

"Jennie," said Rollo, after gazing about for some moments, almost
bewildered, "if this is any kind of meeting at all, I think it must be a
camp meeting."

Jennie was completely bewildered, and had no opinion on the subject
whatever; so she said nothing.

"That's the place for the choir, I suppose," said Rollo, pointing to a
sort of raised platform with a balustrade in fron