"
"Where my mother went this morning?" Dan broke in eagerly.
She nodded, "Your mother and I are--are very good friends," she said
demurely.
"Does she--"
Hope blushed. "I couldn't help telling her. You see she had your letters
and she already knew a great deal. She--"
"I suppose she told you all about it--my finish at Corinth--I mean, and
my plans?" interrupted Dan.
"Yes," Hope replied.
"Then there's nothing more to do but--How is your patient?" he finished
abruptly. "How long must you stay with the case?"
She turned her head away. "My patient went home three days ago."
When the sun was touching the fringe of trees on the distant ridge, and
the varying tints of brown and gold, under the softening tone of the
gray-blue haze that lies always over hollow and hill, were most clearly
revealed in the evening light--Dan and Hope followed the same path that
Young Matt and Sammy walked years before.
In the edge of the timber beyond the deerlick, the two young lovers
found those other older lovers, and were welcomed by them with the
welcome that can only be given or received by those whose hearts and
souls are big enough to follow the trail that is nobody knows how old.
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