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"I want you to be happy, Barbara, just as I intend to be Back there in Chicago there are plenty of girls on Grand Avenue as straight and clean and fine as they make 'em on Riverside Drive Girls ofback there to find the one that God intended fora ht ht me so much that I'd rather that I'd died back there beneath the spears of Oda Iseka's warriors than live here beneath the sneers and contempt of servants, and the pity and condescension of your friends

"I want you to be happy, Barbara, and so I want you to promise me that you'll ood enough for you; but Mallory co about him around town since I caainst him nowhere, and that's a lot more than you can say for ninety-nine of a hundred New Yorkers that are talked about at all

"And Mallory's a ht to have, only they ain't enough of 'eo 'round Do you reht fair against entleman, Barbara--the sort you can be proud of, and that's the sort you got to have You see I know you

"And he fought against those fellows of Yoka in the street of Oda Iseka's village like a ht There ain't any yellow in him, Barbara, and he didn't leave me until there sees I told theainst him--I only wonder that he didn't croak me; your dad wanted to, and Mallory wouldn't let hi

"Here he is now," said Billy "Good-bye--I'd rather not see him Smith'll let me out the servants' door Guess that'll make him feel better You'll do as I ask, Barbara?"

He had paused at the door, turning toward her as he asked the final question

The girl stood facing him Her eyes were dim with unshed tears Billy Byrne swam before them in a hazy mist

"You'll do as I ask, Barbara!" he repeated, but this time it was a command