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“Mother lonely!” he said. “She didn’t 
tell me that.” 
“Roger is wild to stay,” went on Madge, 
looking away — “but I — oh — I fear it is 
only their wonderful kindness. Still 
there’s the Doctor's rheumatism — and he 
does need some one to keep his books.” 
“Rheumatism!” said Ralph sharply. 
“Yes,” nodded Madge in surprise — 
“didn’t you know ? It’s been pretty bad 
this winter. He’s been thinking some of 
breaking in young Doctor Price to take 
part of his practise now and perhaps all 
of it later.” 
“Price!” broke out Ralph indignantly. 
“Oh — that’s absurd ! Price couldn’t pos¬ 
sibly swing Dad’s work. He’s not clever 
enough.” 
“He’s the only one there is,” said Madge 
and Ralph fell silent. 
All about them lay a glittering moonlit 
country of peaceful, firelit homes and 
snowy hills — of long quiet roads and 
shadowy trees and presently Ralph spoke 
again. 
“You like all this,” he said abruptly, 
“the quiet — the country—and all of it?” 
Sister Madge’s black eyes glowed. 
“After all,” she said, “is it not the only 
way to live? This scent of the pine, the 
long white road, the wild-fire of the winter 
sunset and the wind and the hills—are they 
not God-made messages of mystery to 
man? Life among man-made things— 
like your cities — exaggerates the impor¬ 
tance of man the maker. Life among the 
God-made hills dwarfs that artificial sense 
of egotism. It teaches you to marvel at 
the mystery of Creation. Yesterday when 
the Doctor and I were gathering the 
Christmas boughs, the holly glade in the 
forest seemed like some ancient mystic 
Christmas temple of the Druids where one 
might tell his rosary in crimson holly 
beads and forget the world!” 
Well — perhaps there was something fine 
and sweet and holy in the country some¬ 
thing—a tranquil simplicity — a hearty rug¬ 
gedness—that city dwellers forfeited in 
their head-long rush for man-made pleas¬ 
ure. After all, perhaps the most enduring 
happiness lay in the heart of these quiet 
hills. 
“My chief is very keen on country life,” 
said Ralph suddenly. “He preaches a lot. 
Development of home-spirit and old- 
fashioned household gods — that sort of 
thing! He’s a queerish sort of chap—my 
chief—and a bit too—er — candid at times. 
He was dad’s old classmate, you know.” 
And Ralph fell silent again, frowning. 
So Price was to take his father’s 
practise ! LIow it must gall the old Doctor ! 
And mother was lonely eh? — and Dad’s 
rheumatism getting the best of him — 
Why Great Guns! mother and dad were 
growing old! And some of those snow- 
white hairs of theirs had come from wor¬ 
rying over him—John had said so. Ralph’s 
dark face burned in the chill night wind. 
Well, for all old John’s cutting sarcasm, 
his father still had faith in him and the 
trust in young Roger’s eloquent eyes had 
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