hem, looking at the fast-fading outline of Mount Royal, saw
instead an old log house among the enfolding Ontario hills, with a
Silver Maple spreading its protecting branches above the roof. His
home!--and the dear home faces, how they rose up from the misty shore;
and another face, the most beautiful in the world, as he had seen it
that winter night in the sunset glow!

And he had left all, had turned his back upon friends and home, and
love itself, for what? A mere sentiment? A mad notion born of that
night in the wilderness the spring before? The man who had been his
guide and instructor, his staunchest friend and truest adviser from
boyhood, had called his new impulse by just such a name, and the loss
of his esteem had been one of the bitterest drops in Scotty's cup of
renunciation. Apparently he had done injury to himself in every
quarter, by giving up his connection with Raye & Hemming. Captain
Herbert had been disgusted and had declared he washed his hands of him,
Monteith had been filled with righteous indignation over such blind
folly, and his grandparents had been keenly disappointed. And Isabel?
That was the hardest part. What would Isabel think? Perhaps she, too,
was offended, and he had had no opportunity to vindicate himself. And
yet, through disappointments, estrangements and doubts, he clung
tenaciously to his purpose. He was done forever with Raye & Hemming,
and no power on earth could drive him back. Before he left Barbay,
Monteith had come down upon him to bring him to a more reasonable state
of mind. The schoolmaster had scolded, entreated, and had even brought
up arguments which Scotty was powerless to combat. In his perplexity
and bewilderment he could answer nothing; only there had come vividly
to his mind the reply of another young man in somewhat similar
circumstances; a young man, who, when clever people argued that the Man
who had opened his eyes was at fault, could only say, "One thing I
know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see."

For that night in the wilderness had given this young man a clearer
vision of right and wrong, the keen perception granted to those only
who have passed by Calvary and seen the One who suffered there and
conquered. And in that uplifting moment he had heard the voice of the
Eternal say, "This is the way, walk ye in it"; and he could not but
obey.

So Scotty had turned his back upon all his worldly prospects, because
they had led from the way of int