a skilful and subtle inquisitorial method, he
might have come and gone knowing little of the long, weary days and
weeks of toil that lay behind the things that stood accomplished in
that field.

It was the same at the Pass. There stood the hospital equipped, almost
free from debt, and working in harmony with the camps and the miners.
There, too, was the club room and the library.

"And how was all this brought about?" inquired the Superintendent.

"Oh, The Don and the doctor took hold, and the men all helped."

The Superintendent said nothing, but his eyes were alight with a kindly
smile as they rested on his big missionary, and he took his arm in a
very close grip as they walked from shack to shack.

All this time Shock was pouring into his Superintendent's ear tales of
the men who lived in the mountains beyond the Pass. He spoke of their
hardships, their sufferings, their temptations, their terrible vices
and their steady degradation.

"And have you visited them?" inquired the Superintendent.

He had not been able to visit them as much as he would have liked, but
he had obtained information from many of the miners and lumbermen as to
their whereabouts, and as to the conditions under which they lived and
wrought. Shock was talking to a man of like mind. The Superintendent's
eye, like that of his missionary, was ever upon the horizon, and his
desires ran far ahead of his vision.

It was from The Don that the Superintendent learned of all Shock's work
in the past, and of all that had been done to counteract the terrible
evils that were the ruin of the lumbermen and miners. Won by the
Superintendent's sympathy, The Don unburdened his heart and told him
his own story of how, in his hour of misery and despair, Shock had
stood his friend and saved him from shame and ruin.

"Yes, sir," The Don concluded, "more than I shall ever be able to repay
he has done for me, and," he added humbly, "if I have any hope for the
future, that too I owe to him."

"You have cause to thank God for your friend, sir," said the
Superintendent, "and he has no reason to be ashamed of his friend. You
are doing noble work, sir, in this place, noble work."

A visit to the nearest lumber camp and mines, a public meeting in the
hospital, and the Superintendent's work at the Pass for the time was
done.

As he was leaving the building The Don called him into his private room.

"I wish to introduce you to our nurse," he said. "We think a gre