"We have only a month more in the cottage, but after that we still can walk past it; we can look into the garden and see the flowers she planted.

We can visit the place where she lies.

But if we went away we should be lonely and miserable for her, and she would be lonely for us." Mr.Hallowell could not know why Doctor Gilman had refused to leave Stillwater; but when he read that the small Eastern college at which Doctor Gilman had graduated had offered to make him its president, his jealousy knew no bounds.
He telegraphed to Black: "Reinstate Gilman at once; offer him six thousand--offer him whatever he wants, but make him promise for no consideration to leave Stillwater he is only member faculty ever brought any credit to the college if we lose him I'll hold you responsible." The next morning, hat in hand, smiling ingratiatingly, the Chancellor called upon Doctor Gilman and ate so much humble pie that for a week he suffered acute mental indigestion.

But little did Hallowell senior care for that.

He had got what he wanted.