Chapter 18 THE END OF A GREAT SEARCH

"Abiding love! Those humans who know it, become an essential part of nature's scheme."-The Murmuring Pine.

Lydia returned to her college work the Monday after the Junior Prom, a little thinner, and her color not quite so bright as usual, but in a most cheerful frame of mind. She was feeling, somehow, a new sense of maturity and contentment. Even