Stella and an Unfinished Communication Author:Charles Howard Hinton Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III CONCLUSION It was evening when Churton finished. I was so much interested in anything that concerned my old friend that the time had slipped im... more »perceptibly away. Walking towards the house he said,— " I've told you this for a purpose." "What is it?" " Talk to her; you will find out." But the days passed away without any occasion arising. It was a pleasant house to be in, and there were other guests. At length late one afternoon, breaking into the subject, I said, as we were sitting together,— " Did you never, Mrs. Churton, feel any resentment for the strange condition in which Mr. Graham left you ? " She looked at me with an expression of surprise, whether because I asked the question at all, or because of the idea I suggested, I could not tell. " Oh, no! I was so willing; any one who knew him would have been." "Well, it has ended happily! " "Yes, Hugh puts everything to rights ; but I feel as if I had forgotten something, as if we all had forgotten. He cared so much " " For his experiments ? " " No, for people, for all people. I cannot be quite happy often." " But what can you do ?" " That is the sadness. I don't know how to do what he wanted." " Well," I said, "that is the fate of all unintelligible philosophies." " You must not judge," she said, " by Hugh or me ; we could not explain it to you. I understood what he said at first, but I could not understand the ' Path.' You see, it was so sad that Michael had only an ordinary girl to talk to. I think he left out something, and supposed that I knew it." " Have you his papers here ? " I asked. I would have done a good deal for the look of gratitude she gave me when I commenced to read the great pile in which Michael Graham had recorded his labours. It must have ...« less