ne's voice made her father and her sister feel that to tease her
further would be impertinent.

Arthur had said he would not call until the next week because then he
would be at work again. He went once more to Dr. Schulze's, but was
careful to go in office hours. He did not see Madelene--though she,
behind the white sash curtains of her own office, saw him come, watched
him go until he was out of sight far down the street. On Monday he went
to work, really to work. No more shame; no more shirking or shrinking; no
more lingering on the irrevocable. He squarely faced the future, and,
with his will like his father's, set dogged and unconquerable energy to
battering at the obstacles before him. "All a man needs," said he to
himself, at the end of the first day of real work, "is a purpose. He
never knows where he's at until he gets one. And once he gets it, he
can't rest till he has accomplished it."

What was his purpose? He didn't know--beyond a feeling that he must
lift himself from his present position of being an object of pity to
all Saint X and the sort of man that hasn't the right to ask any woman
to be his wife.

CHAPTER XVI

A CAST-OFF SLIPPER

A large sum would soon be available; so the carrying out of the plans to
extend, or, rather, to construct Tecumseh, must be begun. The trustees
commissioned young Hargrave to go abroad at once in search of educational
and architectural ideas, and to get apparatus that would make the
laboratories the best in America. Chemistry and its most closely related
sciences were to be the foundation of the new university, as they are at
the foundation of life. "We'll model our school, not upon what the
ignorant wise of the Middle Ages thought ought to be life, but upon life
itself," said Dr. Hargrave. "We'll build not from the clouds down, but
from the ground up." He knew in the broad outline what was wanted for the
Tecumseh of his dream; but he felt that he was too old, perhaps too
rusted in old-fashioned ways and ideas, himself to realize the dream; so
he put the whole practical task upon Dory, whom he had trained from
infancy to just that end.

When it was settled that Dory was to go, would be away a year at the
least, perhaps two years, he explained to Adelaide. "They expect me to
leave within a fortnight," he ended. And she knew what was in his
mind--what he was hoping she would say.

It so happened that, in the months since their engagement, an immense
amount of