alists, were
those who admired him most, were in a way his followers, loved to attend
his services, were inspired by his personality, and drawn to him in
a loving loyalty. The attraction to these very women was his
unworldliness, his separateness, his devotion to an ideal which in their
reason seemed a delusion. And no women would have been more sensitive
than they to his fall from his spiritual pinnacle.

It was easy with a little contrivance to avoid meeting him. She did not
go to the chapel or in its neighborhood when he was likely to be going
to or from service. She let others send for him when in her calls his
ministration was required, and she was careful not to linger where he
was likely to come. A little change in the time of her rounds was made
without neglecting her work, for that she would not do, and she trusted
that if accident threw him in her way, circumstances would make it
natural and not embarrassing. And yet his image was never long absent
from her thoughts; she wondered if he were dejected, if he were ill, if
he were lonely, and mostly there was for him a great pity in her heart,
a pity born, alas! of her own sense of loneliness.

How much she was repressing her own emotions she knew one evening when
she returned from her visits and found a letter in his handwriting. The
sight of it was a momentary rapture, and then the expectation of what it
might contain gave her a feeling of faintness. The letter was long. Its
coming needs a word of explanation.

Father Damon had begun to use the Margaret Fund. He found that its
judicious use was more perplexing than he had supposed. He needed
advice, the advice of those who had more knowledge than he had of the
merits of relief cases. And then there might be many sufferers whom he
in his limited field neglected. It occurred to him that Dr. Leigh would
be a most helpful co-almoner. No sooner did this idea come to him than
he was spurred to put it into effect. This common labor would be a
sort of bond between them, a bond of charity purified from all personal
alloy. He went at once to Mr. Henderson's office and told him his
difficulties, and about Dr. Leigh's work, and the opportunities she
would have. Would it not be possible for Dr. Leigh to draw from the fund
on her own checks independent of him? Mr. Henderson thought not. Dr.
Leigh was no doubt a good woman, but he didn't know much about woman
visitors and that sort; their sympathies were apt to run away with