e contributed to the cause of science!
David Langston honoured by National Medical Association!' I just stood
in the carriage and screamed, 'Boy! Boy!' until the coachman thought I
had lost my senses. He whistled and got me the paper. I was shaking so
I asked him how to find anything you wanted quickly, and he pointed the
column where events are listed; and when I found the third page there
was your face so splendidly reproduced, and you seemed so fine and noble
to me I forgot about the dress suit and the badge in your buttonhole,
or to wonder when or how or why it could have happened. I just sat there
shouting in my soul, 'David! David! Medicine Man! Harvester Man!' again
and again."

"I don't know what I said to Mr. Kennedy or how I got to my room. I
scanned it by the column, at last I got to paragraphs, and finally I
read all the sentences. David, I kissed that newspaper face a hundred
times, and if you could have had those, Man, I think you would have said
they were right. David, there is nothing to cry over!"

"I'm not!" said the Harvester, wiping the splashes from her hand. "But,
Ruth, forget what I said about being brief. I didn't realize what was
coming. I should have said, if you've any mercy at all, go slowly! This
is the greatest thing that ever happened or ever will happen to me. See
that you don't leave out one word of it."

"I told you I had to tell you first," said the Girl.

"I understand now," said the Harvester, his head against her knee while
he pressed her hand to his lips. "I see! Your coming couldn't be perfect
without knowing this first. Go on, dear heart, and slowly! You owe me
every word."

"When I had it all absorbed, I carried the paper to the library and
said, 'Grandfather, such a wonderful thing has happened. A man has had a
new idea, and he has done a unique work that the whole world is going
to recognize. He has stood before men and made a speech that few, oh
so few, could make honestly, and he has advocated right living, oh
so nobly, and he has given a wonderful gift to science without price,
because through it he first saved the life he loved best. Isn't that
marvellous, grandfather?' And he said, 'Very marvellous, Ruth. Won't
you sit down and read to me about it?' And I said, 'I can't, dear
grandfather, because I have been away from grandmother all day, and
she is fretting for me, and to-night is a great ball, and she has spent
millions on my dress, I think, and there is an especia