“You see, Stella, the place doesn’t matter much,” he went on, with tender confidence. “Any place holds duties to fill a lifetime; it’s the spirit that really counts. A doctor’s heart ought to be as large as all humanity, don’t you think so? I may go east; I may go west. I only know one thing surely … I must follow my Star!”
“I allers sort o’ mistrusted that Injuns was folks.” This was Grandma Brown’s comment, when she heard that Stella had been sent for at last. “Seems like there’s a sight of human nater in most all of us,—even in that Sophi’ Spellman!”