The Gavelyte, December 1909

CEDARVILLE COLLEGE. 171 and that you will have the privilege of seeing the country, and of the many adrnntages it will be to you." o it was arranged. Her father objected at first but he was finaHy persuaded anJ so when the train started westward with Miss Buzbee, Gertrude went alone;. Sh?, soorr become interested in the new world and the new work. She only wished her mother was living for she knew how proud , he would be of her, but her aunt was a fair companion so the days seemed short and the hours pleasant. Beth had been home only a few months before her father moved his family to Sioux Falls, orth Dakota. She at once recognized this as the home uf McNeil and al tho she did not say · so yet she hoped they would ·omehow meet. She couid not make up her mind which she loved, hut this would givP her an opportunity to see Mc 'eil and some way he seemed nearer than Roy. It w:iS the last of July when they moved, and by the first of August they were fixed up and time was begining to rirag. She often thought of McNeil and wondered where he was. She wondered if hP knew where she was. This had kept up for nearly a year until one afternoon, when she RPemed more lonesome than usual, she "',is aroused ljy the ringing of the telephone. Her father wa::i calling from U1e office to tell her he was bring– ing home a business acquaintance for suµper. For some reason she was curious to know who this was. She preµared everything with that daintiness that is chara'Cteristic of the eollt·ge girl and, when she heard her father corning, she met him at the door and was somewhat disappointed to see a man about her father's age and much mailer but when her father said: "I wish you to meet my _ daughter, Mr. Mc eil," her face lighted up and she took more interest in him than she was willing to admit. When he had taken his departure she went to the library where her father was reading and asked him to tell her about Mr. McNeil whether he was married, had a family, and if so, all about them From him she learned · that he and Mr. McNPil owned lumber camps in the west (for she was like many girl who know nothing of the busines of their fathers.) She al o learned that there was a young Ed Mc eil just out of collegr. '!'hat he was out bossing in the camps and altho at first he seemed to be tr<ing headP<l he waR fa -t becoming- a. businesR man that woul<l . urpaRR his