rapidly you scarcely could gather what would weigh two pounds a
day, when dried. Not to mention the fact that you would have to stand
and work mostly in hot sunshine, because mullein likes open roads and
fields and sunny hills. Now you can sit securely in the shade, and in
two hours you can make me a pattern of that moth, for which I would pay
a designer of the arts and crafts shop five dollars, so of course you
shall have the same."

"Oh no!" she cried in swift panic. "You were charged too much! It isn't
worth a dollar, even!"

"On the contrary the candlestick on which I shall use it will be
invaluable when I finish it, and five is very little for the cream of my
design. I paid just right. You can earn the same for all you can do.
If you can embroider linen, they pay good prices for that, too and wood
carving, metal work, or leather things. May I see how you are coming
on?"

"Please do," she said.

The Harvester sprang up and looked over the Girl's shoulder. He could
not suppress an exclamation of delight.

"Perfect!" he cried. "You can surpass their best drafting at the shop!
Your fortune is made. Any time you want to go to Onabasha you can make
enough to pay your board, dress you well, and save something every week.
You must leave here as soon as you can manage it. When can you go?"

"I don't know," she said wearily. "I'd hate to tell you how full
of aches I am. I could not work much just now, if I had the best
opportunities in the world. I must grow stronger."

"You should not work at anything until you are well," he said. "It is a
crime against nature to drive yourself. Why will you not allow----"

"Do you really think, with a little practice, I can draw designs that
will sell?"

The Harvester picked up the sheet. The work was delicate and exact. He
could see no way to improve it.

"You know it will sell," he said gently, "because you already have sold
such work."

"But not for the prices you offer."

"The prices I name are going to be for NEW, ORIGINAL DESIGNS. I've got a
thousand in my head, that old Mother Nature shows me in the woods and on
the water every day."

"But those are yours; I can't take them."

"You must," said the Harvester. "I only see and recognize studies; I
can't materialize them, and until they are drawn, no one can profit by
them. In this partnership we revolutionize decorative art. There are
actually birds besides fat robins and nondescript swallows. The crane
and heron do