"You never'll make it work, Windsor, I tell you now! Such a dog's life as a country doctor's isn't to be kept up without fuel."
Karl laughed, and, turning to his new acquaintance, said,—
"So they told me in the army; but I got through without. I never tasted spirit but once, and then I didn't like it."
"I never have at all," said Ginniss simply. "I gave my mother a promise, when I was twelve years old, that I never would; and I never have."
Karl nodded.
"That's right," said he; "and all the better for you to have had such a mother."
"You'd say that, Mr. Windsor, if you knew what she'd done for me. There ain't many such mothers in any class," said the young man heartily.
Karl looked at his new acquaintance with increasing favor, and found something very attractive in his open, manly face, and the honest smile with which he met his scrutiny.
"I hope you'll stay with us some time, Mr. Ginniss," said he heartily.
"Thank you; but, I believe, only for one day. The journey was my principal object in coming; and I must be at Antioch College again in a week, or ten days at the outside."