then we are going on together."

"What an attractive place this is!"

"Isn't it? I only have seen enough to understand the plan. I scarcely
can wait to set my feet on earth and go into detail. Granny Moreland
says that when spring comes over the hill, and brings up the flowers in
the big woods, she'd rather walk through them than to read Revelation.
She says it gives her an idea of Heaven she can come closer realizing
and it seems more stable. You know she worries about the foundations.
She can't understand what supports Heaven. But up there in Medicine
Woods the old dear gets so close her God that some day she is going to
realize that her idea of Heaven there is quite as near right as marble
streets and gold pillars and vastly more probable. The day I reach that
hill top again, Heaven begins for me. Do you know the wonderful thing
the Harvester did up there?"

"Under the oak?"

"Yes."

"Carey told me. It was marvellous."

"Not such a marvel as another the doctor couldn't have known. The
Harvester made passing out so natural, so easy, so a part of elemental
forces, that I almost have forgotten her tortured body. When I think of
her now, it is to wonder if next summer I can distinguish her whisper
among the leaves. Before you go, I'll take you up there and tell you
what he says, and show you what he means, and you will feel it also."

"What if I shouldn't go?"

"What do you mean?"

"Doctor Carey has offered me a splendid position in his hospital. There
would be work all day, instead of waiting all day in the hope of working
an hour. There would be a living in it for two from the word go. There
would be better air, longer life, more to be got out of it, and if I can
make good, Carey's work to take up as he grows old."

"Take it! Take it quickly!" cried the Girl. "Don't wait a minute! You
might wear out your heart in Chicago for twenty years or forever, and
not have an opportunity to do one half so much good. Take it at once!"

"I was waiting to learn what you and Langston would say."

"He will say take it."

"Then I will be too happy for words. Ruth, you have not only paid the
debt, but you have brought me the greatest joy a man ever had. And there
is no need to wait the ages I thought I must. He can tell in a year if I
can do the work, and I know I can now; so it's all settled, if Langston
agrees."

"He will," said the Girl. "Let me tell him!"

"I wish you would," said the doctor. "I don't know just