Chapter 1. Big Ben‘s Voice
_ CHAPTER I. BIG BEN‘S VOICE
Sue made a great effort to push her way to the front of the crowd. The street preacher was talking, and she did not wish to lose a word. She was a small, badly made girl, with a freckled face and hair inclined to red, but her eyes were wonderfully blue and intelligent. She pushed and pressed forward into the thick of the crowd. She felt a hand on her shoulder, and looking up, saw a very rough man gazing at her.
"Be that you, Peter Harris?" said Sue. "An‘ why didn‘t yer bring Connie along?"
"Hush!" said some people in the crowd.
The preacher raised his voice a little higher:
"‘Tell His disciples and Peter that He goeth before you into Galilee.‘"
Peter Harris, the rough man, trembled slightly. Sue found herself leaning against him. She knew quite well that his breath was coming fast.
"His disciples and Peter," she said to herself.
The street preacher had a magnificent voice. It seemed to roll above the heads of the li

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