boy!" Miss Hugonin crooned, in an

ecstacy of tenderness and woe. "He found this first will in one of the

other drawers, and thought

he

was the rich one, and came in a great

whirl of joy to ask me to marry him, and I was horrid to him! Oh, what

a mess I've made of it! I've called him a fortune-hunter, and I've

told him I love another man, and he'll never, never ask me to marry

him now. And I love him, I worship him, I adore him! And if only

I were poor--"