“That Gabriel will get a place at a San Francisco bank to learn the banking business, and they will live with us, so you and Lizzie will be together.”
“Oh! Clarence, is that so? Oh! you make me so glad! How can I ever thank you?”
“Haven't you said that you love me? Haven't you promised to marry me, and thus make me the happiest man upon the entire face of all this earth? That is enough for thanks. But for telling you the news I want to be paid extra.”
Mercedes blushed crimson.
“I am going to town now, to be away a long time; won't you give me one single kiss to say good-by?”
“Must you go? Why don't you write your letters or telegrams and send them from here?”
“Because I may have to answer some dispatches immediately. Or it is possible that Hubert might have run down to see me for a few hours. To-morrow is steamer day.”
“Then this will be a good chance to send up your photograph I want to have enlarged and painted.”
“Yes; give it to me; I'll send it up.”
“I'll bring it,” she said, going to the parlor. He followed her. He closed the door, saying: