I will write again soon, Ruth." When the Harvester had studied the letter until he could repeat it backward, he went to the cabin and answered it.

Then he sent subscriptions for two of Philadelphia's big dailies, and harvested ginseng from dawn until black darkness.

Never was such a crop grown in America.

The beds had been made in the original home of the plant, so that it throve under perfectly natural conditions in the forest, but here and there branches had been thinned above, and nature helped by science below.

This resulted in thick, pulpy roots of astonishing size and weight.