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could eat a graven image thisA FAST DAY 289very minute, but am Icomplaining? Let's think of somethingjust got to rise above our stomachs."At supper time they did not feel the pangs of hungerwhich they had suffered earlier in the day.else. We've"I suppose we're getting used to it," said Faith."I feel an awfully queer all-gone sort of feeling, butI can't say I'm hungry.""My head is funny," said Una. "It goes round andround sometimes."But she w r ent gamely to church with the others. IfMr. Meredith had not been so wholly wrapped up inand carried away with his subject he might havenoticed the pale little face and hollow eyes in the mansepew beneath. But he noticed nothing and his sermonwas something longer than usual. Then, just beforehe gave out the final hymn, Una Meredith tumbled offthe seat of the manse pew and laythe floor.in a dead faint onMrs. Elder Clow was the first to reach her. Shecaught the thin little bodyfrom the arms of whitefaced,terrified Faith and carried it into the vestry.Mr. Meredith forgot the hymn and everything elseand rushed madly after her. The congregation dismisseditself as best it could."Oh, Mrs. Clow," gasped Faith, "is Una dead?Have we killed her ?""What ischild ?" demanded thepale father.the matter with my