The Gavelyte, December 1907

~1):i ~ pa~s1ng. Then worked until he con Id g;o to ( ;ttorg;P. After th ref' years hP <·ou Id go . Which of yr,u ca.n dt>scrilie Ro1Tow? Thoi:;e c,f you who think so, just imagine .Jaek's sorrow on finding that (;eorgP did not know him. After a :,;hort tinw, however, r;eorge recalled some friends and scenes of hiB boy– hood .Jack's cup of happiness seemf'd filled to overflowing. All too soon for !ieorge hacl l't>Ceived an offer to go to thf' gold fields of Alaska and not.]1ing .Jack eoulJ say or do, could prevent his going. .Jack went home determined to do something to win hi: frit>nd back to him. , c:hool seemed -the onl.r plain pointing towards it Each day's t,1sk st>enwd !nuder as..he tho·ught of his lovf'd onf'- so far away. ''To be rirh; to he powe>rful,'' was (;eorge's cry. That, of .Jack was, "To be of some nsf' to the world at large and to GPorgP in p·a!'ticular.'' To these ends, each di– rected his energies anrl each lived in seclm~ion for Lhe fulfilment of hiB task. ,'chool fi11i:-d1ed, .Jack loo fed about for a prof1 ·ssion. He decided for Llw medic·al, , o went for four years more to thool He finished with honorR • und accepted a vositi0n in a great hospital near by. For three yearR hf' was inorclinately succeRsful, when one day he recei\'t-d the folio\, ing tele- 1-!ram: "Am hurt. Come at once. Hang Pxpense" (;eurgP. After fiye d~y travelling .Jack was at the bedside, after consultation \1 ith the Joe-al doctor, he found that George had rect:>iv!:'rl in.ternal injurie,' by a fall in the mine. He had come home but wm; unablt> t_o go farth!-'r. His isters surrounded him with every comfort possible anrl garP him the hest nur.-ing, love could bestow. 'l'wo day. after .Jack's anival the dread ft.ver <·anw. Long . une::irt>d for, the sickness was critical. f;eorge in his di-lirium began to call for his boyhood friends, and the first was ".lal'k !" His \1 ealth, hi. travPL and pleasures all forgotten ht> wanted .Jack. Thal 01w, seated hy hi:; bed, eould only soothe him. As a. pPeialist he wa. intnestf'd in,.thf' sick man's reeovery; .m~ a friend, he was rearly to lay down his life. if · m,t:>rl he, for (;eorge's recovery. The olJ rock., the cool woods and the CQmpanion, hips that had Leen so clear. con. tantly filled the sitk man's talk. ...:imilar thoughts filled the doc– tor's mind. Looking about him he cnuld not help contra. ting this home with his own. Love and luxury agains t the loneliness of his rooms and the squalor of a hoarrling hon . P. ('oi1ld he only livf' life ovPr. hP. wu1ld Le a Ill i nr r Ii k f' (; enrgP.