"Give me 148, please." "No,--1-4-8." "Hello! Is Mr. Harding within reach?" "Gone to the store, you say? Send some one for him at once, please, and tell him Mr. Hastings wishes to talk with him. Important." He hung up the receiver and returned to his place. "Do you know, Father Kenneth, I have received a letter from Jack every week since I left Gila, except the time he was sick? He insisted upon sending me money, saying that it was he who found me, and wanted me to live." "Yes, Jack is a generous fellow," assented Kenneth. "I tried to make him understand that I was strong and able to earn my own way; but it made no difference." "Just like him! Bless him!" said Esther. "So I have invested his money for him, in his name, and it will make him very comfortable some day." Kenneth smiled. "Jack is becoming a rich man by his own work, and his own wise investments." Just then the telephone rang. "Hello! Hello! Is that you, Jack?" asked Kenneth. "That's good. "Yes, yes. "Something interesting is up. Whom would you like to see at this moment? "Mother Esther? That's good. Who next? "Wathemah? Hold the phone a minute." He turned to Wathemah. "Jack says he'd like to see you. He doesn't know you're here. Here! Talk to him yourself." So Wathemah stepped to the phone. "Hello, old Jack!" There was a happy laugh. "You'll be over to-morrow?" "What's that you say? _Your_ boy? Well, I guess!" "How happy Jack will be!" said Kenneth. "Your little pard?" There was a chuckle from the lithe, muscular young Indian. "To be sure, I'm still your 'pard,' only I'm far from little now. I'm a strapping fellow." "What's that? You feel the education has come between us? No more o' that, old fellow! You're one of the biggest-hearted friends man ever had!" "Tell him to come over as soon as he can," interrupted Kenneth. "Father Kenneth says 'Come over as soon as you can.'" "You will? Good! What a reunion we'll have! Good-by." He hung up the receiver, and the conversation drifted on. "Has Jack made a successful overseer?" questioned Wathemah. "Very. He's a fine fellow. He is still very religious, you know, and the men respect him. He has become an indefatigable reader and student of labor questions. Recently I heard him give a speech that surprised me. He grasps his subject, and has a direct way of putting things." "I should expect Jack to be a forceful speaker," commented Wathemah, "if he ever overcame his diffidence so as to speak at all. But tell me about the school at Gila. That little spot is dear to me." "You should see the building there now," said Esther. "Do you know that the people who were most lawless when we were there, are now law-abiding citizens? Gila is said to be one of the best towns in Arizona."