'At this point the whole business may come to grief,' he said to Mrs.
Mavor, without whose counsel nothing was done.
'Why come to grief?' she asked brightly.
'Because if we don't get the right man, that's what will happen,' he
replied in a tone that spoke of anxious worry.
'But we shall get the right man, never fear.' Her serene courage never
faltered. 'He will come to us.'
Craig turned and gazed at her in frank admiration and said--
'If I only had your courage!'
'Courage!' she answered quickly. 'It is not for you to say that'; and
at his answering look the red came into her cheek and the depths in her
eyes glowed, and I marvelled and wondered, looking at Craig's cool face,
whether his blood were running evenly through his veins. But his voice
was quiet, a shade too quiet I thought, as he gravely replied--
'I would often be a coward but for the shame of it.'
And so the League waited for the man to come, who was to be Resident
Manager and make the new enterprise a success. And come he did; but the
manner of his coming was so extraordinary, that I have believed in the
doctrine of a special providence ever since; for as Craig said, 'If he
had come straight from Heaven I could not have been more surprised.
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