er sparrows were here, filling
the amber twilight with their soft murmurs, and away in the dim green
aisles of the Slash a phoebe was calling sweetly. Christina came up
into the light of the setting sun, and when Gavin's eyes first spied
her, its rays were lighting up her white gown and touching her
uncovered head to pure gold. He took off his Scotch bonnet at the
sight of her.

There was an old heavy gate opening from his fields, and Christina, who
was lingering that Gavin might come to her, saw that he was trying
vainly to open it with his one hand, his stick held under what remained
of his poor left arm. She forgot all her shyness and her pride at the
sight, forgot everything but that Gavin needed her, and ran swiftly to
him, down the green woodland pathway.

She took the heavy gate in her strong, brown hands and pushed it back.

"Oh, Gavin," she cried radiantly, "I will have to be your other hand,
won't I?"

Even Gavin's unready tongue could not miss this great opportunity,
"Yes, you will be everything,--my whole life, Christine," he murmured.

The heavy gate between them was open at last. It had been a long, hard
climb, up their separate hills of suffering and self-sacrifice, but
they had come up steadily and bravely. And now they met, and stood
hand in hand, on the rosy hill-top.

THE END

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