"I am not exactly offering you a job: I am only
showing you how you could, without sacrificing your pride, remain in
this quiet retreat for awhile before returning to the world."
"It would be heaven, Auntie Sue," he returned earnestly. "I want to stay
so bad that I fear myself. Let me think it over until to-morrow. Let me
be sure that I am doing the right thing, and not merely the thing I want
to do."
She liked his answer, and did not mention the subject again until Brian
himself was ready. And, strangely enough, it was poor, twisted Judy who
helped him to set matters straight.
CHAPTER X.
BRIAN KENT DECIDES.
Brian had walked along the river-bank below the house to a spot just
above the point where the high bluff jutting out into the river-channel
forms Elbow Rock.
The bank here is not so high above the roaring waters of the rapids, for
the spur of the mountain which forms the cliff lies at a right angle to
the river, and the greater part of the cliff is thus on the shore, with
its height growing less and less as it merges into the main slope of
the mountain-side. From the turn in the road, in front of the house, a
footpath leads down the bank of the river to the cliff, and, climbing
stairlike up the face of the steep bluff, zigzags down the easier slope
of the down-river side, to come again into the road below.
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