gives me an idea. I can
fatten two calves very nicely--could keep them all winter and get a very
good price for them in the spring. I abhor debt, but do you think you
could make arrangements for me to get two, or three? Do you think you
could?"

"The man I am to deal with is close and I don't believe he'll give
credit."

"Very likely he might object. I didn't know, however, but that you might
make some arrangements with him, and let me settle with you afterward.
Such things have been done in trade, you know."

"Yes, but I'm not prepared to do it now, Professor."

"Well, you know best. But I want you to understand that the money you
advanced me shall be repaid."

"I understand that."

"But you must understand it thoroughly. I am afraid that you do not
grasp the full significance of it."

"I think I do. Well, I must go."

"Yes, and so must I. One of these days, Milford, you will think well of
me."

"I do now, Professor. You are my brother."

"Ah! I have strengths that you----"

"Your brother on account of your weaknesses, Professor."

"I would rather that our kinship rested upon other qualities, but we
will not discuss the question, since we both of us are in a hurry.
Therefore, I bid you good-morning and wish you good luck."

When Milford returned at noontime the hired man gave him a letter. It
was from Gunhild. In a Michigan community she had found, not a field,
indeed, but a garden-patch for her labors. "The pay is very small, but
it is an encouragement," she said. "It has been hard to find a place,
and I was willing to accept almost anything. The people are not awake to
art; to them life demands something sterner, and I have come to believe
that everything but a necessity is a waste of time, but then what I do
is a necessity, and I find my excuse to myself in that. I had a letter
from Mrs. Goodwin a few days ago, and I also met a woman who had seen
her recently. She has made another discovery, a musical genius on the
piano, a girl whom she found in a mission school. I take this to mean
that she has put me aside, for with her the new blots out the old. And
this makes my success as a teacher all the more----" Here she had erased
several words and substituted "needful." "She will never remind me of my
obligation, I am sure, but I cannot forget it. I feel that she was
disappointed in me, but it is not my fault, for I all the time told her
that I was not to be great. I will make no false modesty to hide th