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"Oh, Graydon, I cannot, Ihis hand with almost frenzied disdain for the words so plaintively loyal "It is out of the question, dearest You know it is I love you, oh, how I love you But I--I h of this, Jane," he said so firmly that she stiffened perceptibly in his arms "It's all confounded rot Excuse ht, but you're not Old Elias gave the best advice in the world You knohat it was We've just got to make our own happiness Nobody else will do it for us, and it's just as easy to be happy as it is to be the other way I' as I intend to We're going to be married to-morrow"

"Graydon!"

"Don't refuse! It's no use, dearest We've lost a year or two I don't intend to lose another day What do I care about your father and mother? What did they care about you? You owe all the rest of your life to yourself and to ly or--" He paused She was very still in his ar time

"I do so want to be happy," she said at last, reflectively "No, no! don't say anything yet I a hoill be after we've beenold and plain, and you begin to tire of roeary of their wives--what then? Ah, Graydon, I--I have thought about all that, too You'll never reproach me openly--you couldn't do that, I know But you may secretly nourish the scorn which--"

"Jane," he said, dropping the tone of confident authority and speaking very tenderly, "you forget that s which will forever keep et and overlook inuch more than you could ever ask of me Old Elias, wretch that he is, has pointed out our ways for us; they run together in spite of what may conspire to divide them Jane, I love my soul, but I love you ten thousand times better than ain," sheher hands to his face

"To- in his final victory, hurried to his roo As he was about to enter the elevator he noticed a grey-suited boy in brass buttons, who stood near by, an inquiring look in his face