A Pair of Patient Lovers

saying. It really vexed her that the university families, who had all received them so nicely, and who appreciated her husband's spiritual and

rence Ewbert was now preaching to a third generation of his followers. He had doubtless meant them to be eager and alert in this patience, but the version of his gospel which his latest apostle gave taught a species of acquiescence which was foreign to the thoughts of the founder. He put as great stress as could be asked upon the importance of a realizing faith in the life to come, and an implicit trust in it for the solution of the problems and perplexities of this life

, the dean, and the several professors of Hilbrook University than to that of the hereditary Rixonites who nodded in a slumbrous

u know I can't make

t to have you lift a finger. But I kno

may do to my poor sheep-they're not an intellectual flock-in trying to lead them in the ways of spiritual modesty and unconsciousness. How do we know

ing her sense of the whimsical quality in his suggestion. "But

Ransom Hilbro

she implored, with a nervous leap from the point in

t Hilbrook's having come the last Sunday night was

isted from the safety of her rea

th a gentle sigh, in which her sympathetic pe

ng down. You ought to be, now. You're perfectly worn out with that long walk y

rom the depths of his easy-chair. "Hilbroo

oes, I'm determined to excuse you somehow. You ought never to

had never gone to see Hilbrook the old man would probably never have come near them, and that if he had not tried so much to interest him when he did come Hilb