“Yes.”

“Humph!  You seem to be mighty sure of it.  How do you know she will?”

For the first time a gleam, a very slight and almost pathetic gleam, of humor shone behind Galusha’s spectacles.

“Because she always does,” he said.  And thus ended his connection with the banking profession.

Aunt Clarissa was disgusted and disappointed, of course.  She expressed her feelings without reservation.  However, she laid most of the blame upon heredity.

“You got it from that impractical librarian,” she declared.  “Why did Dorothy marry him?  She might have known what the result would be.”

Galusha was more downcast even than his relative.

“I’m awfully sorry, Aunt Clarissa,” he said.  “I realize I am a dreadful disappointment to you.  I tried, I honestly did, but—­”

And here he coughed, coughed lengthily and in a manner which caused his aunt to look alarmed and anxious.  She had heard John Capen Bangs cough like that.  That very afternoon the Bute family physician saw, questioned and examined Galusha.  The following day an eminent specialist did the same things.  And both doctors looked gravely at each other and at their patient.

Within a week Galusha was on his way to an Arizona ranch, a place where he was to find sunshine and dry climate.  He was to be out of doors as much as possible, he was to ride and walk much, he was to do all sorts of distasteful things, but he promised faithfully to do them, for his aunt’s sake.  As a matter of fact, he took little interest in the matter for his own.  His was a sensitive spirit, although a quiet, shy and “queer” one, and to find that he was “no good” at any particular employment, even though he had felt fairly certain of that fact beforehand, hurt more than he acknowledged to others.  Galusha went to Arizona because his aunt, to whose kindness and generosity he owed so much, wished him to do so.  For himself he did not care where he went or what became of him.

But his feelings changed a few months later, when health began to return and the cough to diminish in frequency and violence.  And then came to the ranch where he lodged and boarded an expedition from an eastern museum.  It was an expedition sent to explore the near-by canyon for trace of the ancient “cliff dwellers,” to find and, if need be, excavate the villages of this strange people and to do research work among them.  The expedition was in charge of an eminent scientist.  Galusha met and talked with the scientist and liked him at once, a liking which was to grow into adoration as the acquaintanceship between the two warmed into friendship.  The young man was invited to accompany the expedition upon one of its exploring trips.  He accepted and, although he did not then realize it, upon that trip he discovered, not only an ancient cliff village, but the life work of Galusha Cabot Bangs.