It was not often that they could meet, for An Wolf's work, which, though not very exacting, had to be done single-handed, kept him to his post.

Besides, he was a good scholar and eked out a small income by preparing a few pupils for public school.

An occasional mid-week visit to Normanstand in the slack time of school work on the Doctor's part, and now and again a drive by Norman over to the rectory, returning the next day, had been for a good many years the measure of their meeting.

Then An Wolf's marriage and the birth of a son had kept him closer to home.

Mrs.An Wolf had been killed in a railway accident a couple of years after her only child had been born; and at the time Norman had gone over to render any assistance in his power to the afflicted man, and to give him what was under the circumstances his best gift, sympathy.