Could she not love him a little bit in return? Would she not go back with him, as his wife, to the house that had been hers, and still awaited her, by the shore of the great lake?
"But I thought, Mr. Peveril—I mean, I heard that you were engaged?"
"So I was. I was engaged to Mrs. Owen, at whose house you sang this evening, and where I was so blessed as to find you. But she thought me unworthy and let me go. I know I am unworthy still; but, Mary dear, won't you give me one more chance? Won't you take me on trial?"
"Well, then, on trial," she answered, though in so low a tone that he barely caught the words.
In another instant he had folded her in his arms, for he knew that she was wholly his, and that in this Copper Princess his interest was unshared.
THE END
By S. R. KEIGHTLEY
The Last Recruit of Clare's. Being Passages from the Memoirs of Anthony Dillon, Chevalier of St. Louis, and Late Colonel of Clare's Regiment in the Service of France. Illustrated. Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.50.