markable!' said the manager.

'Wonderful!' said Mr. Holt.

'Me and my niece have been a-laughing at it and a-noticing of it all the
evening,' said Barbara's uncle.

Carl told the story.

'I'll have it in the papers,' said Milford the manager. 'Stunning good
advertisement; Eh? No names, of course. Oh dear, no; no names!'

Then the manager and the dramatist suddenly felt themselves de trop, and
Carl, catching the infection, went with them.

'Can you forgive me for doubting you?' said Christopher. 'It was I who
suffered by it.'

'Poor Chris!' said Barbara, and quite regardless of her uncle she put
her arms round her lover's neck and kissed him like the tenderhearted,
unsophisticated child she was. 'Am I cruel Barbara now?' she asked,
nestling to him, and looking up with a smile half audacious, half
appealing.

'No,' said Christopher a little sheepishly. But as she slipped away
from him he recovered himself and took her in his arms and kissed her
tenderly.

And so, shortly thereafter--to finish in the style of the best of all
story-tellers who entertained us in our childhood--they married, and
lived happily.

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