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"Do you remember that he said it was meant we should be--friends?"

"Yes"

"Well I--think he was right,--I'ht I--didn't know

ho my friends were until I--fell out with you And so--I'm here

to--to ask your pardon, and I--don't kno to do it, only--oh,

deuce take it! Will you give me your hand, Bev?"

But before the words had well left his lips, Barnabas had sprang

forward, and so they stood, hand clasped in hand, looking into each

other's eyes as only true friends may

"I--e you so much, Bev--Clemency has told me--"

"Indeed, Dick," said Barnabas, a little hastily, "you are a

fortunate man to have won the love of so beautiful a woman, and one

so noble"

"My dear fellow," said the Viscount, very solemn, "it is so

wonderful that, sometimes, I--alenerally a very uncertain thing!" said

Barnabas bitterly

"But Clemency isn't like an ordinary wo very tenderly, "in all the world there is only one Clemency

and she is all truth, and honor, and purity Sometimes, Bev, I feel

so--so deuced unworthy, that I am almost afraid to touch her"

"Yes, I suppose there are a few such wo away "But, speaking of the Apostle of Peace, have

youbehind the 'Spotted Cow' Why?"

"Well, you mentioned him"