3. Note how quickly the transfer is made from the office of Mr. Bonniwell, Senior, to Seth Miles’s farm house. Such compression is necessary in a short story.
4. How do you explain Richard’s first attitude toward his teaching and toward all his surroundings at Garibaldi?
5. What was the first surprise Richard received concerning the character of Seth Miles?
6. What, according to Mr. Miles, was the marked change which the young teacher, 'Earnin' money to get through college,' effected?
7. Was Seth Miles’s sacrifice—the sacrifice he made when he gave up Cynthia—a natural one under the circumstances? Why? What helped to console him for his loss?
8. What was the second sacrifice, and in what spirit was it met?
9. Contrast Seth Miles’s spirit with the spirit of Sister Anne in Miss Carman’s The Debt.
BURIED TREASURE
Miss Mazo De La Roche has attained her most notable literary success in Buried Treasure. So apparent is this success, that a moving-picture company has recently asked the privilege of producing this story.