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Jane's eyes did not falter She looked at him, "You promised, you know----!"

"Yes, Allison--I love you--but--NO! You o, and listen--You promised, you know----!"

Allison's ar look of joy

"All right, darling, go to it"--he said with a joyous sound in his voice--"I can stand anything now, I know It seeh for me But hurry! A fellow can't wait forever"

"No, Allison, you must sit back and be serious It isn't really happy, you knohat I have to tell you----!"

Allison becaine anything terrible enough to stop this happiness ofit frohed at that, and Allison breathed one out of her voice His hands went out and grasped hers

"At least I can do this," he pleaded, and Jane lifted her eyes, now serious again, and s her hands stay in his passively

"Listen, Allison--o Your father was a forger! What do you suppose I care? He probably had so but he would be able to ht You can't make me believe that any parent of yours was actually bad! And besides, if he was, it wouldn't be you----"

"Allison! Listen!" broke in Jane gravely, stopping the torrent of words hich he was atte to silence her "It isn't what you think at all My father wasn't a forger! He was a good man!"

"He wasn't!" exclaimed Allison joyously "Then what in thunder? Why didn't you tell 'em so, Jane?" He tried to draw her to him, but she still resisted

"That's just it, Allison, I can't I never can----"

"Well, then I will! You shan't have a thing like that hanging over you----!"

"But that is just what you must not do And you can't do it, either, if I don't tell you about it, for you wouldn't have a thing to say, nor any way to prove it And I won't tell you, Allison, ever, unless you will promise----!"

Allison was sobered in an instant

"Jane, don't you knoell enough to be sure I would not betray any confidence you put in me?"