All shadows
that lay between them were gone. Nothing else really mattered.
The day following, Barry received a rude shock. The M. O., after an
examination, to his amazement and dismay, pronounced him physically
unfit for service.
"And why, pray?" cried his father indignantly, when Barry announced the
astounding report. "Is the man a fool? I understood that he was strict.
But you! unfit! It is preposterous. Unfit! how?"
"Heart murmur," said Barry. "Sets it down to asthma. You remember I told
you I had a rotten attack after my experience last week in the river. He
suggested that I apply for a position in an ambulance corps, and he is
giving me a letter to Colonel Sidleigh at Edmonton. I am going to-morrow
to Edmonton to see Sidleigh, and besides I have some church business to
attend to. I must call upon my superintendent. You remember I made an
application to him for another mission field."
He found Colonel Sidleigh courteously willing to accept his application,
the answer to which, he was informed, he might expect in a fortnight;
and so went with a comparatively light heart to his interview with his
superintendent.
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