newspaper he felt like exclaiming: "Will no one rid me of
this pestilent fellow?" For the "Rise and Fall," in an
edition deluxe limited to two hundred copies, was being
bought up by all his book-collecting millionaire friends; a
popular edition was on view in the windows of every book-
shop; It was offered as a prize to subscribers to all the
more sedate magazines, and the name and features of the
distinguished author had become famous and familiar. Not a
day passed but that some new honor, at least so the
newspapers stated, was thrust upon him. Paragraphs announced
that he was to be the next exchange professor to Berlin; that
in May he was to lecture at the Sorbonne; that in June he was
to receive a degree from Oxford.

A fresh-water college on one of the Great Lakes leaped to the
front by offering him the chair of history at that seat of
learning at a salary of five thousand dollars a year. Some of
the honors that had been thrust upon Doctor Gilman existed
only in the imagination of Peter and Stetson, but this offer
happened to be genuine.

"Doctor Gilman rejected it without consideration. He read the
letter from the trustees to his wife and shook his head.

"We could not be happy away from Stillwater," he said. " We
have only a month more in the cottage, but after that we
still can walk past it; we can look into the garden and see
the flowers she planted. We can visit the place where she
lies. But if we went away we should be lonely and miserable
for her, and she would be lonely for us."