. The ball was rolling even faster than
they had expected.

It was Sunday. They walked through the pretty streets of Penticton,
enjoying the splendor of an Okanagan day. By and by they passed a
graveyard. A man and woman were standing beside one of the graves;
they looked up at the boys, but seemed not to recognize either of them.
Evan turned pale, momentarily, then walked up to the man and woman.
She wept when he told her who he was, and she related to him the story
of a girl who had loved too young; who had faded and contracted
consumption, back in Huron County, Ontario. They had brought her out
to the mountain valleys, hoping the air would cure her, but she must
have been too far gone.

In the evening, while Henty was writing letters, Evan went out for a
walk. He wandered along a back street until he came again to the
cemetery. A greybird sang its sweet song to him--but not only to him.
Evan was thrilled with the sad beauty of that song, and of the Song of
Life. Until the sun's rays had disappeared and the little greybird's
singing was done, he sat, alone, beside Lily's grave.

CHAPTER XXI.

_THE ASSOCIATED BANKCLERKS OF CANADA._

It was Labor Day morning. Massey Hall had been rented for the
afternoon and evening to accommodate a mass meeting of bankclerks. The
newspapers of Toronto, Montreal, Hamilton, London and Guelph, as well
as the other big towns within a radius of four hundred miles from
Toronto, had printed the news.

Notices had come in from over four hundred out-of-town clerks,
promising attendance. Evan and A. P. were busy. Girl-friends of
Toronto clerks had formed themselves into a club for the making of
badges and pennants with which the boys and the assembly room,
respectively, were to be decorated.

When the "organizers" arrived at Massey Hall already a score of young
ladies were nursing bundles of bunting, anxious to have someone hold
the ladders for them.

Before long city clerks began dropping in, bringing telegrams and
letters bearing encouraging announcements. Evan called for volunteers
to act on a reception committee, to meet all trains and to introduce
the fellows. Everybody responded, and ten were selected.

A thousand seats were reserved for bankboys, five hundred for their
friends, and the rest were free to the public. The newspapers had
discovered two orchestras willing to serve gratis; both of them were
accepted, and came in the forenoon for rehearsal under