'll go open
the gate?"

"Yes," said the Girl. "I'm so glad. You won't forget to ask him to help
me if he can?"

The Harvester wheeled hastily. "I won't forget!" he said, as he hurried
to the gate. The car ran slowly, and the Girl could see him swing to
the step and stand talking as they advanced. When they reached her they
stopped and all of them came forward. She went to meet them. She shook
hands with Mrs. Carey and then with the doctor.

"I am so glad you have come," she said.

"I hope you are not lonesome already," laughed the doctor.

"I don't think any one with brains to appreciate half of this ever could
become lonely here," answered the Girl. "No, it isn't that."

"A-ha!" cried the doctor, turning to his wife. "You see that the
beautiful young lady remembers me, and has been wishing I would come. I
always said you didn't half appreciate me. What a place you are making,
David! I'll run the car to the shade and join you."

For a long time they talked under the trees, then they went to see the
new home and all its furnishings.

"Now this is what I call comfort," said the doctor. "David, build us a
house exactly similar to this over there on the hill, and let us live
out here also. I'd love it. Would you, Clara?"

"I don't know. I never lived in the country. One thing is sure: If I
tried it, I'd prefer this to any other place I ever saw. David, won't
you take me far enough up the hill that I can look from the top to the
lake?"

"Certainly," said the Harvester. "Excuse us a little while, Ruth!"

As soon as they were gone the Girl turned to the doctor.

"Doctor Carey, David says you are great. Won't you exercise your art on
me. I am not at all well, and oh! I'd so love to be strong and sound."

"Will you tell me," asked the doctor, "just enough to show me what
caused the trouble?"

"Bad air and water, poor light and food at irregular times, overwork and
deep sorrow; every wrong condition of life you could imagine, with not a
ray of hope in the distance, until now. For the sake of the Harvester, I
would be well again. Please, please try to cure me!"

So they talked until the doctor thought he knew all he desired, and then
they went to see the gold flower garden.

"I call this simply superb," said he, taking a seat beneath the tree
roof of her porch. "Young woman, I don't know what I'll do to you if you
don't speedily grow strong here. This is the prettiest place I ever saw,
and listen to the music o