_ be written, now, I know!" said Nattie, earnestly, her eyes
shining. "You remember what you once said, Cyn? I see now you were
right."

"Yes;" said Cyn, seriously, "and thank Heaven that it was love, and not
disappointment, that came!"

"Love shall not come in vain!" Nattie said, as seriously. "I will be
worthy of it!"

The after years only could prove her words. But in Clem's face the
belief in them was written as plainly as if those future possibilities
were acknowledged results.

"We must have another feast to celebrate events!" Cyn said then, gayly.
"You are happy; my romance is O. K.; Celeste is ecstatic; Quimby as
joyful as circumstances permit the victim of mistake to be; Jo and I are
hopeful of future fame--and we certainly must have a feast!"

"With plenty of dishes this time," laughed Clem, "and there shall be no
more crosses on the wire!"

"But bless my heart!" ejaculated Cyn, "here you two are making love
like ordinary mortals"--at this Nattie hastily withdrew the hand Clem
had taken-- "Quimby and Celeste, for instance! This will never do! We
must end this romance of dots and dashes as it commenced, to make it
truly 'Wired Love!'"

"True enough! so we must!" answered Clem merrily, and rising, he went to
the "key," with his eyes looking straight into Nattie's, and wrote
something that made her blush and seize his hand in shy and unnecessary
alarm, saying,

"Suppose Jo should be over in your room! He might be able to read it!"

"Very well," replied Clem, as he laughed and kissed her, regardless of
the spectator. "I am quite content to make love like common mortals,
Cyn, and I hope, my darling Nattie, that we are done now with all
'breaks' and 'crosses,' as we are with Wired Love. Henceforth ours shall
be the pure, unalloyed article, genuine love!"

And Nattie, half-laughing, half-serious, but wholly glad, took the key
and wrote, "O. K."

If any one is anxious to know what Clem wrote when Nattie stopped him,
here it is.

MY LITTLE
DARLING
MY WIFE

[Transcriber's Note. The concluding three lines were printed in the
American Railroad dialect of Morse. It cannot easily be represented
in ASCII as it requires dashes of different lengths]

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