daughter, I shall leave to you
for adjustment as a man of honor."

Richard crossed the street to Dorothy and told her what had passed.
Dorothy kissed him, and cried over him, and made a wail against their
darkling fate.

"How I wish papa was poor!" cried Dorothy. "I wish he didn't have a
dollar!" Then, conscience-stricken: "No, I don't! Poor pop; he doesn't
hate money, if I do."

Richard took Dorothy's sweet face between his hands, and looked into her
eyes.

"You will believe me, darling?"

"Yes!"

"Then don't weep, don't worry! I promise that within the year you shall
be my wife. I'll find the way to find the money."

"And hear me promise," returned Dorothy. "Money or no money, I'll become
your wife what day you will."

Of course, after such a speech, there befell a sweet world and all of
foolish tenderness; but, since the scandalized Ajax would not stay to
witness it, neither shall you.

Mrs. Hanway-Harley said nothing to Dorothy of her interview with
Richard; she appeared to believe that Richard had saved her that labor.
There was a kind of sneer in this. Feeling the sneer, Dorothy put no
questions; she was willing, in her resentment, to have it understood
that Richard had told her. Why should he not?--she who was to be his
wife! Dorothy would have been proud to proclaim her troth from the
house-tops.

Mrs. Hanway-Harley had Storri to dinner. Dorothy, when he was announced,
sought her room. A moment later, Mrs. Hanway-Harley was at the door. She
came in cool, collected, no trace of anger. Why did not Dorothy come
down to dinner? Dorothy did not come down to dinner because Dorothy did
not choose.

"You do not ask Mr. Storms to dinner," said Dorothy, her color coming
and her eyes beginning to glow. "I will not meet your Storri."

"Mr. Storms is not in our set, dear," said Mrs. Hanway-Harley coldly.

"He is in my heart," returned Dorothy.

The self-willed one seated herself stoutly, and never another word could
Mrs. Hanway-Harley draw from her.

Storri received the excuses for Dorothy's vacant place at table which
Mrs. Hanway-Harley offered; for all that he read the reason of her
absence, and his pride fretted under it as under a lash.

New Year's Day; and the diplomatic reception at the White House. The
President stood in line with his Cabinet people, and the others filed
by. Richard, being utterly the democrat, was, of course, utterly the
aristocrat, since these be extremes that never fail to me