for me away oflf in the country you appear to be anxious to the city i said he only smiled i am going to send you to the country he said with calm decision by john marvel assistant when you come back i have made all the arrangements i am going to find i will find her if the world holds her yes to be sure he smiled he was so strong that i yielded i learned that a good offer was waiting for me to go into the law office of one of the large when i should be well enough to work in a capacity which would have termed that of a minor but it was coupled with the condition that i should get well first my speech at the meeting when i and my part in the had become known and friends had interested themselves in my behalf so john marvel reported and as he appeared to be managing things i assumed that he had done this too i never fully knew until after his death how truly was one of the i often think of him with his high aim to better the whole human race inspired by a passion for his own people to extend his to all mankind cast out by those he labored for denying that he was a christian and yet dying a christian death in the act of for those who him i owe him a great debt for teaching me many things but chiefly for the knowledge that the future of the race rests on the whole people and its process depends on each one however he may love his own working to the death for all he opened my eyes by the conflict to the fact that every man who to the common good of mankind is one of the chosen people and that the law is to do good to mankind i discovered that john marvel knew he was in love with though how he knew it i never learned he never told her he said but died with it locked in his heart � as was best he added after a pause and then he looked out of the window and as he did not say anything from which i could judge whether he knew why never told his love i did not tell what i knew it may have been the slowly fading light which made his face so sad i remember that a long silence fell between us and it came over me with a new force how much more both these men had loved than i and how much nobler both had always been � the living and the dead and i began with myself to say something which i felt i ought to say but had not courage enough presently john said very slowly almost as if he were speaking to himself i believe if you keep on she will marry you and i believe you will help each other � i know she will help you his arm was resting on the table i over and laid my hand on his arm i once thought it certain i should win her i am far from sure that i shall now i am not worthy of her � but i shall try to be you alone john of all the men i know are i cannot give her up � but it is only honest to tell you that i have less hope than i had by john marvel assistant he turned to me with a sad little smile on his face and shook his head i would not give her up if i were you you are not good enough for her but no one is and you will grow better for the first time i almost thought him handsome you are old man no i am not � i have my work to do � it is useless to talk to you keep on he picked up a paper and began to read and i observed for die first time that he had taken off his glasses i made some remark on it yes my sight is getting better � i can see the stars now he said smiling john you have long seen the stars i said so as soon as i could travel john marvel sent me off � sent me to a where he had lived in his first � a place far from the a country of woods and rolling fields and running streams the real country where blossoms and birds sing and waters murmur they are the best people in the world he said and they were they accepted me on his word mr marvel had sent me and that was enough his word was a in all that region they did not know who the queen of england was and were scarcely sure as to the president of the united states but they knew john marvel and because i had come from him they treated me like a prince and this was the man i had had the folly to look down by the conflict in that quiet place i seemed to have content in that land of peace the strife of the city the noise and turmoil and horror of the strike seemed but as the of waves breaking on some far off shore i began to new life with the first breath of the air the day after i arrived i borrowed the that belonged to my host and down the little river that skirted his place with the idea of fishing in a pool he had told me of the afternoon was so soft and that i forgot my sport and simply drifted with the current under the overhanging branches of and when turning a bend in the stream i came on a boat floating in a placid pool in it were 