town during the last twenty years came to light on that day, the
most notable of which was the sending of a certain young lad to
school and his subsequent education as a minister.

But other memories of a sweeter and more secret nature still came
up likewise, among them the following:

A young girl, who was of a very timid but deeply sensitive nature,
had been urged into an engagement with a man she did not like.
Though the conflict this occasioned her and the misery which
accompanied it were apparent to everybody, nobody stirred in her
behalf but Agatha. She went to see her, and, though it was within
a fortnight of the wedding, she did not hesitate to advise the
girl to give him up, and when the poor child said she lacked the
courage, Agatha herself went to the man and urged him into a
display of generosity which saved the poor, timid thing from a
life of misery. They say this was no easy task for Agatha, and
that the man was sullen for a year. But the girl's gratitude was
boundless.

Of her daring, which was always on the side of right and justice,
the stories were numerous; so were the accounts, mostly among the
women, of her rare tenderness and sympathy for the weak and the
erring. Never was a man talked to as she talked to Jake Cobleigh
the evening after he struck his mother, and if she had been in
town on the day when Clarissa Mayhew ran away with that
Philadelphia adventurer many said it would never have happened,
for no girl could stand the admonition, or resist the pleading, of
this childless mother.