“I am very glad, Cassie—glad for both you and Havener. I knew how much depended on it.”
“The happiness of our lives depended on it—yes, our very lives!” asserted the man.
“Well,” said Frank, “I presume I am to be best man?”
“Of course!” cried Havener and Cassie together.
“Then that is settled.”
“I have satisfied myself beyond a doubt, and Cassie also, that the woman I believed my wife was the lawful wife of another at the time we were living together. She committed bigamy. That clears me of her, and I am free.”
Frank showed Havener and Cassie the notices in the dramatic papers, and they took their turn to congratulate him.
“The sun of happiness and prosperity is shining brightly on all of us just now,” said Merry. “I see my way clear to get back to college, and——”
“Leave the rest of us in the lurch,” laughed Havener. “Well, I guess we can take care of ourselves.”
“But I don’t propose to leave the rest of you in the lurch, Havener.”