But he needs the hope, the enthusiasm, activity,
this is going to give."
"Hasn't he been splendid this winter?" she asked softly, those very deep
warm lights in her eyes. "Did you ever see anything like it, doctor?"
"I thought I knew something about courage," he replied shortly, "but Karl
makes me think I didn't."
"I don't believe there are many men could turn from big things to smaller
ones, and grow bigger instead of smaller," she said, with a very tender
pride.
"They say scientists are narrow and bull-headed. Wonder what they would
say to this? And there's another thing to remember. We have seen the
results of the victories. Only Karl Hubers knows of the fights."
"I know of some of them," said Ernestine, simply.
"Yes," he corrected himself--"you. And before we quite deify Karl we must
reckon with you. He could not have done it without you."
"He would not have tried," she said--and the man turned away. That look
was not his to see.
When she recalled herself it was with a sense of not having been kind.
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