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"And when you return? What then?"

"I have decided to go Westward"

"I alad of it Boston! New York! Baltimore! Charleston! New Orleans!

Why the very names are epics of enterprise! Old as I am, if I could win

away from my desk, I would take a year or two to read the handclasp, and words of "good

speed;" and though Allan was going to bid Maggie a long farewell, he was

light-hearted, for it was not a hopeless one If she loved him, and could

have patience for two years, he would be free to ive her this hope to share with hih, the city was all astir withwith military music--

that admirable metallic music so well disciplined, so correct, and yet all

the more ardent and passionate for its very restraint It typified to hiie Promoter Its honorable limitations, the

patience and obedience by which it was restricted, only er;

and he understood how in order to love a woman well, truth and honor must

be loved still better

The first person he saw upon Leith pier was Willie Johnson "Willie!" he

cried, laughing outright in his pleasured surprise; "have you coo there"