'And don't miss the whole
meaning of the Life that lies at the foundation of your religion. Yes,'
he added to himself, 'the work is worth doing--worth even her doing.'
I could not think so then, but the light of the after years proved him
wiser than I. A man, to see far, must climb to some height, and I was
too much upon the plain in those days to catch even a glimpse of distant
sunlit uplands of triumphant achievement that lie beyond the valley of
self-sacrifice.
CHAPTER V
THE MAKING OF THE LEAGUE
Thursday morning found Craig anxious, even gloomy, but with fight
in every line of his face. I tried to cheer him in my clumsy way by
chaffing him about his League. But he did not blaze up as he often did.
It was a thing too near his heart for that. He only shrank a little from
my stupid chaff and said--
'Don't, old chap; this is a good deal to me. I've tried for two years to
get this, and if it falls through now, I shall find it hard to bear.'
Then I repented my light words and said, 'Why! the thing will go sure
enough: after that scene in the church they won't go back.
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