Philip, whose affection for him was second only to that which he gave his wife, went at once.

His friend was almost gone.

He rallied when Philip came, and then for two weeks his life swung back and forth between this world and the next.

Philip stayed on and so was gone one Sunday from his pulpit in Milton.

Then the week following, as Alfred gradually came back from the shore of that other world, Philip, assured that he would live, returned home.
During that ten days' absence serious events had taken place in Calvary Church.