"Wish me joyl" he Knit', throwing'
his strong, lithe frame into a chair.
"She lias consented to many me.
She lores me, and has agreed to link
her fate '.ith mine. It must happen in
a lew days, i.iyie a very lew nays.
Wo shall go straight to join dear old Dr.
Thormlyke after our marriage. I feel
I've neglected him horribly. Hut when
he see. Perditu he will pardon nie, I'm
ceitaiu. And we shall live out therewith
hiin, if he'll let us."
"Where do 3 on menu?" asked Clyde,
wiping his pen, and giving a sad little
sniff to the autumn tuberose in his coat-front.
"Chicago? It can't be very
eomfortable there jrtst now, considering
that most of it is in ashes."
"Oh, we 11 mid some other place out
in the West." said Gerald, with an excited
toss of the head. "There are lots
of them. It will be a new life, and
that's just what I want. You forget
that I only need a little time to work
again at the elixir and realize from it a
monstrous fortune "
Clyde made a plaintive sort of tattoo
on the desk before him with the well-kept
finger-nails of one hand. "Ah,
yes yes, indeed," he muttered, in joyless
monotone. Not long afterward
lie poited his copious letter to Thorn-dyke,
and then had a conscience-stricken
feeling that he should have
spent a small fortune in sending it all
by telegram.
CHAPTF.K X.
"You are ready, I'enlitar said Gerald
with great gentleness, on u curtain
morning just three days later.
"Yes," she answered, standing boforo
him in a simple dark dress, with a.
