ive you plenty of time. There's my car.
Good-by. We have had a happy afternoon, eh?"

"Oh, yes, very happy, thank you," said Helen, but she could not quite
suppress a little sigh.

"Well, good-by," said Brown, and he went off, jubilant to his car.

He sat down in a corner, and thought hard till he came to his street.
"If he'll only play up we'll win, sure thing. But will he, confound
him, will he? Well, the kick-off will be to-morrow."

He found Shock waiting in his rooms, with a face so grave and so sad
that Brown's heart grew sore for him.

"Come on, old chap, we'll go to grub. But first I am going to groom you
a bit. We'll take a foot or two off your hair since the football season
is over; and I think," examining him critically, "we can spare that
beard, unless you are very fond of it."

Shock protested that he had no particular love for his beard; it was
better for the cold weather, and it was not always convenient for him
to shave.

When the barber had finished with Shock, Brown regarded him with
admiration.

"You are all right, old chap. I say, you've got thin, haven't you?"

"No, I am pretty much in my playing form."

"Well, there is something different." And there was. The boyish lines
of his face had given place to those that come to men with the cares
and griefs and responsibilities of life. And as Brown looked over
Shock's hard, lean face, he said again, with emphasis, "You'll do."

After dinner Shock wandered about the rooms uneasily for a time, and
finally said, "I say, Brown, I would like to go up home, if you don't
mind." They had not yet spoken of what each knew was uppermost in the
other's mind.

"All right, Shock. But wouldn't it be better in the morning?"

"I want to go to-night," said Shock.

"Well, if you are bound to, we will go up in an hour or two. There's a
lot of things I want to talk about, and some things to arrange,"
replied Brown hoping that in the meantime something might turn up to
postpone the visit till the morning.

For a second time that day Fortune smiled upon Brown, for hardly had
they settled down for a talk when the Superintendent appeared.

"I am glad to find you in," he said, giving Shock's hand a vigorous
shake. "I came to offer you my congratulations upon your appearance
this afternoon, and also to tell you that the Committee have appointed
you to address the Assembly on Home Mission night."

"Hooray!" cried Brown. "Your Committee, Doctor, is composed of m