The good he would do would be past estimation.
The Harvester continued.

He was describing the most delicate and difficult of herbs to secure.

He was telling how they could be raised, prepared, kept, and compounded.

He was discussing diseases that did not readily yield to treatment, pointing out what drugs were customarily employed and offering, if any of them had such cases, and would send to him, to forward samples of unadulterated stuff sufficient for a test comparison with what they were using.

He was walking serenely and surely into the heart of every man before him.
Just at the point where it was the psychological time to close, he stopped and stood a long instant facing them, and then he asked softly, "Did any man among you ever see the woman to whom he had given a strong man's first passion of love, slowly dying before him ?" One breathless instant he waited and then continued, "Gentlemen, I recently saw this in my own case.