money I earn to the blind soldiers."

(I wished the tears in her eyes didn't make them more lovely still!)

"Being what you are and all you are, it would be brutal for me to add to
the number of things you have to tell your father. I'm a very obscure
person, and he is a gentleman of title and otherwise distinguished. You
are the Honorable Miss----"

"Papa has said numbers of times," she began softly, looking far out
across the blue Sound--"he has said, oh, very often, that he'll never
stop troubling about me until--until I'm happily married."

"When you came here you wore a wedding-ring," I remarked casually.

"It was only a 'property' ring, to help deceive you. I bought it in
Chicago. When Aunt Alice came I threw it away."

"The finger seems lonesome without it," I said. "If I get you another, I
hope you'll take better care of it."

"If you should put it there," she replied, looking fixedly at the hand,
"that would be very, very different."

THE END

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BY MEREDITH NICHOLSON

LADY LARKSPUR
THE MADNESS OF MAY
THE VALLEY OF DEMOCRACY

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

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