use a horse. Don't you remember my mare? I rode her before I
went away. I left her in old Sammy's charge, and he has been
riding her every day."

"And glad enough to do it, I am sure," said she, "for I have
heard him say that the things he hates most in this world are
dead legs. 'When I can't use mine,' he said, 'let me have some
others that are alive.' This is such a pretty creature," she
added, as Clewe was looking about for some place to which he
might tie his animal, "that I have a great mind to learn to ride
myself!"

"A woman on a horse would be a queer sight," said he; and with
this they went into the house.

The conference that morning in Mrs. Raleigh's library was a long
and somewhat anxious one. For several years the money of the
Raleigh estate had been freely and generously expended upon the
enterprises in hand at the Sardis Works, but so far nothing of
important profit had resulted from the operations. Many things
had been carried on satisfactorily and successfully to various
stages, but nothing had been finished; and now the two partners
had to admit that the work which Clewe had expected to begin
immediately upon his return from Europe must be postponed.

Still, there was no sign of discouragement in the voices or the
faces--it may be said, in the souls--of the man and woman who sat
there talking across a table. He was as full of hope as ever he
was, and she as full of faith.