e his coat and around his
waist I saw that he wore a belt of alligator skin into which was thrust a
curved and glittering bowie knife!

The curtain was going up. I was pulled back into my seat. My pulses
throbbed as scene by scene the pantomime was disclosed before my happy
eyes. Here was I, John Curzon, part of quite as good a play as yon.
Pirates, love, fluttering banners, swashbuckling clowns, life stretched
before me, a jolly adventure with Angel and The Seraph always there to
share the fun. Now the Seraph's head had dropped to Mrs. Handsomebody's
lap. He was half asleep. Her black kid hand patted his back. She was gazing
with a rapt smile at the stage.

The pantomime was nearly over. The night of danger and dark alarm was past.
Rosy morning broke upon the mountain side, and Columbine, reclining in a
pearl-pink shell, opened her eyes and smiled upon a flowery world.

I felt father's cheek against my head. His hand covered mine. He whispered:

"Happy, John?"

I nodded, clutching his fingers. And so we met the New Day together.

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