The breach between the two men was an unspeakable grief to the lad, and all the greater because he had an instinctive feeling that the fault lay with the man to whom from the first he had given the complete and unswerving devotion of his heart.

Without explaining to Kalman, French had suddenly ceased his visits to Wakota, but he had taken care to indicate his desire that Kalman continue his studies with Brown, and that he should assist him in every way possible with the work he was seeking to carry on among the Galicians.

This desire both Brown and Kalman were only too eager to gratify, for the two had grown into a friendship that became a large part of the lives of both.

Every Sunday Kalman was to be found at Wakota.

There, in the hospitable home of the Browns, he came into contact with a phase of life new and delightful to him.