work of his friend john marvel as a proof of his theory while at first the broad shouldered yoimg clergyman fled from her presence with a which was it was not long before he appeared to have himself sufficiently against her shafts of to be able to her presence and before a great while had passed her friends began to her on the fact that wherever she went mr marvel was pretty sure to appear one of her old cousins half and half her against going too far with the young man saying mr marvel my dear is too good a man for you to amuse yourself with and then fling away what is sim by john marvel assistant the diversion of an hour for you may become a matter of real gravity with him he is already deeply interested in you and you are interested in him why i am interested in him declared the girl why he tells me of all the old sick w � and cats in the parish and i have an engagement to go around with him and see some old women to morrow you ought to see some that we went to visit the other i know my dear but you must not make fun of his work he is happy in it and is a great deal of good and if you should get him dissatisfied oh no indeed i gave him some money last week for a poor family to get some clothes so that they could come to church they were named they live near the mines the whole family were to be next sunday and what do you suppose they did as soon as they got the clothes they went last sunday to a big and were all i i was him about that when you heard me laughing at him the wretches exclaimed her cousin to think of their deceiving him i know said the girl but i think he minded the deception much more than the other though i charged him with being disappointed at not getting them into his fold really i don t think he minded it a bit at least he said he would much rather they had gone where they would be happy now mr marvel s friend mr is a different matter he appears quite able to take care of himself by quite said miss but my dear said her cousin lowering her voice they say he is a jew he is said you know it yes he told me so himself told you himself i why i how did he come to tell you why i don t know we were talking and i said something foolish about the jews � about some one being as rich and as a jew and he smiled and said are all jews rich � and and i said if they have a chance and he said not always i am a jew and i am not rich well i thought he was just me � so i went on and do you know he is not only a jew but mr marvel says he is rich only he does not claim his money because he is a mr marvel says he could go home to morrow and his father would take him and lavish money on him but he works � works all the time among the poor well i must say i always liked him said her cousin but he isn t such good fun to as mr marvel � he is too intense mr marvel does get so red and unhappy looking when he is well you have no right to him he is a clergyman and should be treated with respect you wouldn t dare to your in town � the great dr � what is his name wouldn t i dr why he is one of the greatest in town he s always by john marvel ant running to see some girl � them with his big blue eyes exclaimed her cousin why he d many any one of the who would have him or or don t be profane the old lady looked so hat the girl ran over and kissed her with a laugh why i ve told him so told him tl yes i have i told him so when he tried to marry me then he tried you are you really are but do tell me about it did he really court you why he s old enough to be your grandfather interrupted the girl that s what i told him served him right too but he must be a fine preacher from what my old friend once wrote me did you ever meet she and her sister live in your city they went there years ago to press a claim they had to a large fortune left them by their father colonel who used to be a very rich man but left his affairs somewhat complicated i gather from what writes me or did write for she does not write very often now i wish you d go and see them when you go back i will said where do they live at a mrs s � she keeps a boarding house � i don t know the exact and s by letter a year or more ago but you will have no difficulty in finding it it must be in the fashionable quarter and i should think any one could tell you where she lives i will find her said laughing y by john marvel when a little later a of broke out in a little camp not far from the home of miss s relatives and she learned that john marvel spent all his time nursing the sick and their necessities as far as possible she awakened to a of the truth of what her cousin had said that under his awkward exterior 