CHAPTER XXVI.
"And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away." Onward sped the busy days, until at last there came an evening which made it exactly three years since Edward had first set foot in Albany.

They had been years of wonderful progress to him.

He had gone on steadily with his evening studies; he had been an eager pupil, and Ray had been a faithful teacher.

This evening he sat in the library waiting for Ray, but he had a very troubled face.

Once more he took Kitty's long letter out of his pocket.