Whenever he opened a newspaper he felt like exclaiming: "Will no one rid me of this pestilent fellow ?" For the "Rise and Fall," in an edition deluxe limited to two hundred copies, was being bought up by all his book-collecting millionaire friends; a popular edition was on view in the windows of every book-shop; It was offered as a prize to subscribers to all the more sedate magazines, and the name and features of the distinguished author had become famous and familiar.

Not a day passed but that some new honor, at least so the newspapers stated, was thrust upon him.

Paragraphs announced that he was to be the next exchange professor to Berlin; that in May he was to lecture at the Sorbonne; that in June he was to receive a degree from Oxford.
A fresh-water college on one of the Great Lakes leaped to the front by offering him the chair of history at that seat of learning at a salary of five thousand dollars a year.

Some of the honors that had been thrust upon Doctor Gilman existed only in the imagination of Peter and Stetson, but this offer happened to be genuine.
"Doctor Gilman rejected it without consideration.

He read the letter from the trustees to his wife and shook his head.
"We could not be happy away from Stillwater," he said.