he
meat and drink of all true affection.

But women have learned within the last two decades to listen to every
side of an argument. Their Club life, with its variety of "views," has
led them to decide that every phase of a question ought to be
attentively considered. So I do not doubt that my story will receive
justice, and I hope approval, from all the women--and men--that read it.

Affectionately to all,
AMELIA E. BARR.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE GREAT SEA WATERS 1

II. THE PEOPLE OF THE STORY 18

III. LOVE VENTURES IN 39

IV. BROTHERS 56

V. THE HEARTH FIRE 78

VI. LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM 99

VII. SHOCK AND SORROW 125

VIII. THE GODDESS OF THE TENDER FEET 146

IX. JOHN INTERFERES IN HARRY'S AFFAIRS 182

X. AT HER GATES 204

XI. JANE RECEIVES A LESSON 235

XII. PROFIT AND LOSS 262

XIII. THE LOVE THAT NEVER FAILS 286

SEQUENCES 312

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"Holding Bendigo's bridle, he had walked with her to the Harlow
residence"..._Frontispiece_

"He knew her for his own ... as she stood with her father at the gate of
their little garden"...72

"He ran down the steps to meet her, and she put her hand in his"...168

"Noiselessly he stepped to her side and ...stood in silent prayer"...232

THE MEASURE OF A MAN

CHAPTER I

THE GREAT SEA WATERS

Gray sky, brown waters, as a bird that flies
My heart flits forth to these;
Back to the winter rose of Northern skies,
Back to the Northern seas.

* * * * *

The sea is His, and He made it.

I saw a man of God coming over the narrow zigzag path that led across a
Shetland peat moss. Swiftly and surely he stepped. Bottomless bogs of
black peat-water were on each side of him, but he had neither fear nor
hesitation. He walked like one who knew his way was ordered, and when
the moss was passed, he pursued his journey over the rocky moor with the
same untiring speed. Now and then he sang a few lines, and now and then
he lifted his cap, and stood still to listen to the larks. For the larks
sing at midnight in the Shetland summer, and to the music of their
heaven-soaring songs he set one