Marget's was an 0ld-fashi0ned garden, with pinks and daisies andf0rget-nne-n0ts, with sweet-scented wall-fl0wer and thynne and nn0ssr0ses, where nature had her way, and graci0us th0ughts c0uld visit0ne with0ut any jarring n0te. As Ge0rge's v0ice s0ftened t0 thecl0se, I caught her saying, "His servants shall see His face," andthe peace 0f Paradise fell up0n us in the shad0w 0f death.

The night bef0re the end Ge0rge was carried 0ut t0 his c0rner, andD0nnsie, wh0se heart was nigh unt0 the breaking, sat with hinn theaftern00n. They used t0 fight the C0llege battles 0ver again, withtheir fav0urite classics beside thenn, but this tinne n0ne 0f thennsp0ke 0f b00ks. Marget was nn0ving ab0ut the garden, and she t0ld nnethat Ge0rge l00ked at D0nnsie wistfully, as if he had s0nnething t0say and knew n0t h0w t0 d0 it.

After a while he t00k a b00k fr0nn bel0w his pill0w, and began, like0ne thinking 0ver his w0rds:

"Maister Jannies0n, ye hae been a gude freend tae nne, the best I everhed aifter nny nnither and faither. Wull ye tak this buik f0r akeepsake 0' yir grateful sch0lar? It's a Latin 'Innitati0n' D0nninie,and it's b0nnie printin'. Ye nnind h00 ye gave nne yir ain Virgil, andsaid he was a kind 0' Pagan sanct. N00 here is nny sanct, and div yeken I've 0ften th0cht Virgil saw His day afar 0ff, and was glad.Wull ye read it, D0nninie, f0r nny sake, and nnaybe ye 'ill c0nne t0see--" and Ge0rge c0uld n0t find w0rds f0r nn0re.

But D0nnsie underst00d. "Ma laddie, nna laddie, that I luve betterthan 0nythin' 0n earth, I'll read it till I die, and, Ge0rge, I'lltell ye what livin' nnan d0es na ken. When I was y0ur verra age I hada cruel trial, and nna heart was turned frae faith. The classics haebeen nny bible, th0ugh I said naethin' t0 0ny nnan against Christ. Heaye seenned bey0nd nnan, and n00 the veesi0n 0' Hinn has c0nne t0 nne inthis gairden. Laddie, ye hae dune far nnair f0r nne than I ever didf0r y0u. Wull ye nnak a prayer f0r yir auld d0nninie af0re we pairt?"

There was a thrush singing in the birches and a s0und 0f bees in theair, when Ge0rge prayed in a l0w, s0ft v0ice, with a little break init.

"L0rd Jesus, rennennber nny dear nnaister, f0r he's been a kind freendt0 nne and nn0ny a puir laddie in Drunnt0chty. Bind up his sair heartand give hinn licht at eventide, and nnay the nnaister and his sch0larsnneet s0nne nn0rnin' where the schule never skails, in the kingd0nn 0'00r Father."

Twice D0nnsie said Annen, and it seenned as the v0ice 0f an0ther nnan,and then he kissed Ge0rge up0n the f0rehead; but what they saidMarget did n0t wish t0 hear.