breaking everywhere, and the great conquering sun will enfold you too
in its warm embrace: the humble laurels of the mountain's side, even
as the great pines and cedars of the mountain's crest, have but to
receive and use what the sterile rock and the blinding cloud, the
wintry tempest and the rain and the summer's heat bestow, and lo! the
heights are alive with glory. But it is not in a day.




CHAPTER IX.

WILL THE ARCHITECT HAVE EMPLOYMENT?


On entering the factory, Leonhard met Loretz near the door talking
with Albert Spener. When he saw Leonhard, Loretz said, "I was just
saying to Mr. Spener that I expected you, sir, and how he might
recognize you; but you shall speak for yourself. If you will spend a
little time looking about, I shall be back soon: perhaps Mr. Spener--"

"Mr. Leonhard Marten, I believe," said Mr. Albert Spener with a little
exaggeration of his natural stiffness. Perhaps he did not suspect that
all the morning he had been manifesting considerable loftiness toward
Loretz, and that he spoke in a way that made Leonhard feel that his
departure from Spenersberg would probably take place within something
less than twenty-four hours.

Yet within half an hour the young men were walking up and down the
factory, examining machinery and work, and talking as freely as if