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"Well, let's postponeto help erie to bed?" he asked

"Yes," replied Elsa with alacrity, adding, as she followed Dick to the door, "Don't you think Roger'd better sleep here, to-night? With Gustav in the living tent--"

Charley nodded "I'llhead with tear-dier lifted his worn face and gave Charley a long look She was recovering soh the deepened sadness of her mouth would never lessen, the despondency that had marked her face when in repose ever since Felicia's death was gone As Roger watched her, it seemed to him that if Charley as well as Ernest failed him, the blackness of the pit would indeed close around him He rose suddenly and crossed the rooainst his heart, and said slowly: "Charley, look in ed ht her lower lip which would treazed long into deep-set, wearied, blue eyes

"What happened, Roger?" Charley asked, at last

"I fully recognized ht hile but you'll never see again nor will any one else, the thing little Felicia was so afraid of You understand and believelips to words

Roger dropped her hands and took her face in a tender clasp

"Charley, it's a poor, broken, futile thing just now, my life, but so help me, God, it will not always be so And whatever it is or will be, it belongs to you Will you take it, Charley?"

There was a long pause during which Felicia's old enemy, the alarm clock, ticked loudly Then Charley s my own share of you, I think I'll take Felicia's too Then I'll have all of you!"

"Charley! Oh, Charley! My dearest love! My dearest!" Roger ju the slender body in his arrily to hers He kissed her eyes, her hair "Charley! Charley! I' forto have you just the same Now I can bear even Ernest's failure Do you really love ?"