"Oh, father, we've been scheming," cried Doris. "Rosalie and I got out the barrel of old sermons you had at Delta before we came here, and we sorted over the outlines and picked out a lot of good ones, and--you can preach from those this summer. You tell the rest, Rosalie--it is your contribution." "Well, father," she said shyly, "when I knew about your eyes I began to get ready to help. For I knew Doris would have the family to manage, and that I was the proper one to stand with you. And so I took a lot of special courses in Bible study and practical Christianity and social service stuff, and I can look up references as quick as a wink, and really I know a lot. So I shall be your pastor's assistant, and furnish the eyes while your own are resting." "Why, Rosalie, you little--Problem," he said brokenly. "I wanted to surprise you, father. And all the time I was talking of my career--I knew that my career would be--right here with you and Doris, backing up the manse." He held her hands very closely in his, and did not speak for a while. "Every one is taking hold," he said at last. "I have worked all my life--every day crowded full to overflowing-- Now everything is going, and-- How shall I fill the days?" "There is where I come in," said Mr. MacCammon quickly. "I have to begin some very important proof-reading on my newest philosophy, my very best work and the most pretentious. And I was wondering if you wouldn't come out and loaf with me most of the time--and let me proof-read aloud to you--I really need some expert opinion as I go along. Maybe it would help you with the time--I know it would help me with the book." Mr. Artman sat silent again for a while. "Girls," he began finally, "I am ashamed to say I was puzzled. I could not see the way. Now it is opening up, step after step--and the rest will come in its proper time. I shall never worry again. And to-morrow night I will ask for my vacation at once." "Have you got the money, father?" asked Zee. "We may have to squeeze a little," he said, smiling. "The board will advance my June salary, I know, and the household bills can run for a while. There is a little in the bank--I do not know just how much--" "Forty-two dollars and eighty-six cents," said Doris practically. "But the bills for this month are paid--I can see the hand of a tender Providence in that. For it is mighty seldom we have the bills paid and forty-two dollars and eighty-six cents besides." "The forty-two dollars will run you here at home, and the June salary will see me through at Chicago." "Just as I am always trying to show you," said Zee. "We preachers have our troubles, but there is always a plain path made for us." "When we get to it, yes. The trouble is that some of us have a habit of wanting to see the path before we get there. I like to use a telescope on it, miles ahead, I am afraid," her father admitted.