You have
treated us to one by walking in with such delightful
unexpectedness, and so should understand. I'll show you when you
are through supper."
"I'm through now;" and he rose with a promptness most pleasing to
her. His gladness in recognizing old and carefully nurtured
friends, his keen, appreciative interest in the new candidates for
favor that she had planted, rewarded her abundantly.
"Oh," he exclaimed, "what a heavenly exchange from the close,
fetid air of hospital wards! Could the first man have been more
content in his divinely planted garden?"
She looked at him shyly and thought, "Perhaps when you taste of
the fruit of knowledge the old story will have a new and better
meaning."
She now regarded him with a new and wistful interest, no longer
seeing him through the medium of friendship only. His face, thin
and spiritualized, revealed his soul without disguise. It was the
countenance of one who had won peace through the divine path of
ministry--healing others, himself had been healed. She saw also
his unchanged, steadfast love shining like a gem over which flows
a crystal current.
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