looked forward yearningly to the renewal of such hours.

Sometimes when my evening was free from my routine duty, and I was
working harder than ever I had worked in my college days, I would
forget my task to dream of the time when Miss Tucker's piano would no
longer be clattering beneath me, and I should be no more disturbed by
Mrs. Kittle, who had a habit of jumping her chair around the room next
to mine, when somewhere in the city's outskirts I should have a house
of my own, a little house in a bit of green, where I could find quiet
and peace and Gladys Todd. For the realization of that dream all that
I needed was money. By the lack of it I was condemned to Miss
Minion's. Even when I had attained to the munificent salary of Mr.
Carmody, a figure which Boller had announced to me with so much awe, I
was still far from having an income to keep two in the simplest
comfort. It was difficult to make this clear to Gladys Todd. Her
father and mother had married on eight hundred dollars a year, and even
now my salary equalled the doctor's as president of the college. To
her my salary read affluence, and in my letters I began to have
difficulty to convince her that I had not grown exceedingly worldly and
was not putting material comfort in the balance against unselfish and
uncomplaining love. On my third biannual visit to Harlansburg I went
armed with facts and figures as to house rents and flat rents, the
prices of meats per pound, the cost of fuel, light, and clothing.
Having in my pocket such a tabulated statement which showed for
incidentals a balance of but fifty dollars, I could not but smile
ironically at the manner in which Doctor Todd presented me to his
friends. Boller was forgotten. Boller's achievements were outshone by
those of David Malcolm. Malcolm's success demonstrated the high
character of McGraw's system of training. Malcolm was already being
heard from!

Malcolm, with the problem which confronted him, was inwardly gauging
his success by his bank account, and even the pride of Gladys Todd was
a little clouded when she was called upon to use the same measure.

Sitting in the very chair in the shaded lamplight from which she had
looked so admiringly on Boller two years before, she now studied the
prospectus of our contemplated venture. She was very lovely, but I
remember noticing what I had never before noticed, the wisps of hair
which floated a little untidily about her ears. And I did what I h