GLEAMS OF LIGHT. 97 



This grows up in the after - years. The 

 income which a young reporter on a small 

 country paper can make is very modest, and 

 the position is not one which commands the 

 highest respect. Yet many young fellows 

 are satisfied and happy in such a position, 

 because, though they are still at the bottom of 

 the ladder, their foot is planted on the rung, 

 and their hands are on the sides. Being rich, 

 therefore, in hope, he took the step which 

 naturally follows success he became engaged. 

 His fiancee was a daughter of the late Mr. 

 Andrew Baden, at that time occupying Day- 

 house Farm, adjacent to Coate. For the 

 present there could be no thought of marry- 

 ing, but they would wait till their hopes were 

 partly realized, and the golden shower should 

 begin. Now there were two instead of one 

 looking for the splendid triumph of the future. 

 A first instalment of success came the follow- 

 ing year, in November, 1872 a real, indis- 

 putable success a thing that brought money 

 and more work, and yet more work ; a thing 

 which, in the hands of a practical man, would 

 have brought work enough to last a lifetime. 



