matter is very important, madam."

At that Lewis jumped up, brimming over with love and tenderness, and stood before the youngsters, asking what the important matter might be.

Then a boy of fifteen named Bobby Adams stepped forward and said: "It is that pipe organ we heard in the Washington church. We have made up our minds to buy it."

"And do you know how much it costs?" "Of course," said Bobby. "We know very well that it is expensive; its price may be five hundred dollars. So we have resolved to work and earn money after school hours, and we wanted you to be the first person to know of the matter."

Lewis gave them a calm glance and said: "The price of the small organ comes to 25 thou-sand dollars!"

The youngsters were astounded, and bewilderment took hold of them. As for Lewis, before turning his back to return to his work, he said in jest: "If you really want to get an organ, all you have to do is make one."

"That is a great idea!" one of them shouted. "We will make it ourselves — but will you help us as you helped us in forming the choir?"

Lewis was crossing the passage in haste, asking himself how many years the making of an organ would take, should a man venture on such a work!!

On the evening of the next day, Lewis attended the choir's rehearsal, but he opened the work harshly when he said, joking: "You have been building castles in the air, youngsters! Imagine yourselves making a pipe organ!!"

Scarcely had Lewis uttered those words when bitter disappointment rose in the youngsters' faces; the enthusiasm with which they had received him died, and turned into looks full of pain and vexation. The youngsters went through

their exercises, but their hearts were not in them. And when the work was over, they went out in perfect quiet — but that ember had gone out.

Lewis realized then that he must begin the impossible work; so he asked them to come back, and said to them in all sincerity: "I do not think you appreciate what you are asking; it is truly hard, exhausting work, and it may take months — nay, many years. But if you insist on beginning the work and finishing it, then we shall try."

Those who were buying their needs near Dean's store will long remember the morning of May 17, 1948, when a big truck appeared, loaded with matched organ pipes, working tools, pails of water, brushes, and other necessary things. And crowning all this, the youngsters appeared, standing and covering every inch of the empty spaces. The people of the village gathered and stood watching the boys unload 700 old pipes and set them down in the open ground by the church.

The youngsters gave themselves to their work in full earnest, and paid no heed to the onlookers standing about. Lewis had found in his possession a few pipes he had collected in the course of his travels, and he added them to the collection by the church. The youngsters plunged into cleaning this great collection, taking no notice of the mockers among the crowds that multiplied around them; and when these observed the youngsters' indifference to them, they went away — the sun was then drawing toward its setting.

In the evening, after that hard work from which their hands had swollen, the youngsters loaded the pipes onto the truck and carried them to the lower floor of Lewis's house, where the organ was to be made. And between one night and the next morning, Placid Harbor turned into one great workshop; equipment spread here and there,

and Lewis would look at it and blame himself for what he had let it in for.

From that day Lewis's house teemed with youngsters morning, noon, and evening; they prepared hundreds of stops for the air pipes, and made ready the thou-sands of small parts required.

Then one day there happened what was bound to happen. The time came when they needed to buy certain costly parts to com-plete the work. And Lewis, who intensely hated speaking tours, made a great sacrifice to gather the required sum. As for the boys — every one of them devout, and of those who always go to church — they prayed fervently that God would send a person with knowledge enough of the buying of organ parts; they believed in the depths of their souls that he was bound to come, and they waited with longing.

And on one of those evenings their hope came true, when Lewis opened the door and said in a voice whose astonishment was clothed in perfect calm: "The prayer of a large company of youngsters has been answered!" The comer was the lawyer Joe Whiteford, one of the devotees of the organ, who had come from Washington to discuss certain practical matters with Lewis. Whiteford was amazed when he saw the youngsters' activity. And

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