CHAPTER XXVI.
"I SEE LIGHT NOW" Every man's task is his life-preserver.
-- EMERSON.
Life is an opportunity for service.
-- DR.

WESTCOTT.
It is in the silence that follows the storm, and not in the silence before it, that we should search for the budding flower.
-- Hindu Proverb.
One gray October afternoon, a fortnight later, Malcolm was walking down Victoria Street, when he came face to face with Colonel Godfrey.

The Colonel, who was full of business as usual, seemed unfeignedly pleased at the meeting.
"This is a stroke of good luck!" he exclaimed in his hearty way.

"You are just the man I want, Herrick.

I was rather in a fix, and was going to Victoria for one of those boy messengers; but you will do my business for me, like a good fellow?
Have you anything particular to do ?" "Nothing special.