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Updated: May 7, 2025
IN the surgical ward of the Hope Hospital at Hanaford, a nurse was bending over a young man whose bandaged right hand and arm lay stretched along the bed. His head stirred uneasily, and slipping her arm behind him she effected a professional readjustment of the pillows. "Is that better?" As she leaned over, he lifted his anxious bewildered eyes, deep-sunk under ridges of suffering.
The child's birthday fell in early June; and Amherst, some months previously, had asked that she should be permitted to spend it at Hanaford, and that it should be chosen as the date for the opening of the first model cottages at Hopewood.
"She's right," he mused "it's dead stone dead: there isn't a drop of wholesome blood left in it." The Moosuc River valley, in the hollow of which, for that river's sake, the Westmore mills had been planted, lingered in the memory of pre-industrial Hanaford as the pleasantest suburb of the town.
Langhope's party had left Mount Desert but three days previously, the arrival of the unknown at Hanaford showed a singular impatience to rejoin Miss Brent. As he reached this point in his meditations, Amherst found himself at the street-corner where it was his habit to pick up the Westmore trolley.
Justine's remembrance flew back to their first meeting at Hanaford, when his confidence in his own powers was still unshaken, his trust in others unimpaired.
As an exponent of the popular and patriotic "good-enough-for-me" theory he stood in high favour at the Hanaford Club, where a too-keen consciousness of the metropolis was alternately combated by easy allusion and studied omission, and where the unsettled fancies of youth were chastened and steadied by the reflection that, if Hanaford was good enough for Halford Gaines, it must offer opportunities commensurate with the largest ideas of life.
AMHERST, Cicely's convalescence once assured, had been obliged to go back to Hanaford; but some ten days later, on hearing from Mrs. Ansell that the little girl's progress was less rapid than had been hoped, he returned to his father-in-law's for a Sunday. He came two days after the talk recorded in the last chapter a talk of which Mrs. Ansell's letter to him had been the direct result.
For Amherst persisted in regarding the gift of her fortune as a gift not to himself but to the mills: he looked on himself merely as the agent of her beneficent intentions. He was anxious that Westmore and Hanaford should take the same view; and the opening of the Westmore Memorial Hospital was therefore to be performed with an unwonted degree of ceremony. "I am glad Mr. Langhope is coming," Mrs.
"Take her by all means, my dear fellow: I always sleep on both ears when she's with your wife." It was nearly three months since Justine had left Hanaford and now she was to return there alone with her husband! There would be hours, of course, when the child's presence was between them or when, again, his work would keep him at the mills.
"I was afraid you had gone back to Hanaford " "Tonight? To Hanaford?" "To tell your mother." She felt a contraction of the arm embracing her, as though a throb of pain had stiffened it.
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