keep concealed. I appeal to you, gentlemen, to your sense of honour
and of compassion, whether what I have told you should go any farther
or not. My own happiness, my daughter's future, the hopes of this
man's regeneration, all depend upon your decision.

"Which is," said my friend, "that all is well that ends well and that
the whole matter ends here and at once. Tomorrow the loose settings
shall be tightened by an expert goldsmith, and so passes the greatest
danger to which, since the destruction of the Temple, the urim and
thummim has been exposed. Here is my hand, Professor Andreas, and I
can only hope that under such difficult circumstances I should have
carried myself as unselfishly and as well."

Just one footnote to this narrative. Within a month Elise Andreas was
married to a man whose name, had I the indiscretion to mention it,
would appeal to my readers as one who is now widely and deservedly
honoured. But if the truth were known that honour is due not to him,
but to the gentle girl who plucked him back when he had gone so far
down that dark road along which few return.

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