"Well," said Kenneth, "I feel that I am adrift on a great sea. If anyone pilots me to a safe harbor, it will be your granddaughter."
"No," she said, looking into his face with a sudden radiance in her own, "but the Man of Galilee."
And so the talk drifted, talk where each one could be himself and speak out of his innermost heart, and not be misunderstood. So blessed is friendship of the higher sort.
The day passed and the morrow dawned. Then David Bright journeyed eastward again, to minister to the world's unfortunate ones.
He left behind him in Gila an influence that men speak of to this day. But to no one, probably, did his coming mean more than to John Harding. John's transformation was now complete. He became the self-appointed evangelist to numbers of unfortunate and tempted men. He had risen in the scale of life, and had become a Man!
CHAPTER XV
SOME SOCIAL EXPERIENCES
One evening about the middle of February, Kenneth Hastings called at the Clayton home. After a few moments of general conversation, he turned to Mrs. Clayton and begged to be excused from his engagement to accompany them to Box Canyon.
"Oh, Mr. Kenneth," protested Edith.