single
desperate chance and operate with the hope of success. Laurie, they
were told, was a monument of courage and had the spirit of a Spartan.
Unquestionably he merited the good luck that followed for fortune did
reward his heroism,--smiling fortune. Of course, the miracle of health
could not come all in a moment; months of convalescence must follow
which would be unavoidably tedious with suffering. But beyond this arid
stretch of pain lay the goal of recovery.

No lips could tell what this knowledge meant to those who loved the
boy. In time he was to be as strong as any one! It was unbelievable.
Nevertheless, the roseate promise was no dream. Laurie was brought home
to Pine Lea and immediately the mending process began. Already one
could read in the patient face the transformation hope had wrought.
There was some day to be college, not alone for Ted but for Laurie
himself,--college, and sports, and a career.

In the fullness of time these long-anticipated joys began to arrive.
Health made its appearance and at its heels trouped success and
happiness; and to balance them came gratitude, humility, and service.
In the meantime, with every lengthening year, the friendship between
Laurie and Ted toughened in fiber and became a closer bond. And it was
not engineering or electricity that ultimately claimed the constructive
interest of the two comrades but instead the Fernald mills, which upon
Grandfather Fernald's retirement called for younger men at their helm.
So after going forth into the great world and whetting the weapons of
their intellect they found the dragon they had planned to slay waiting
for them at home in Freeman's Falls. Yet notwithstanding its familiar
environment, it was a very real dragon and resolutely the two young men
attacked it, putting into their management of the extensive industry
all the spirit of brotherhood that burned in their hearts and all the
desire for service which they cherished. With the aim of bringing about
a kindlier cooeperation and fuller sympathy between capital and labor
they toiled, and the world to which they gave their efforts was the
better for it.

Nevertheless, they did not entirely abandon their scientific interests
for on the border of the river stood a tiny shack equipped with a
powerful wireless apparatus. Here on a leisure afternoon Ted Turner and
his comrade could often be found capturing from the atmosphere those
magic sounds that spelled the intercourse of peopl