"I know who you are now; I saw it in the paper. I read it this morning. I saw your picture, and I knew." She stopped to catch her breath deeply. "Oh, I'm so glad!"
She was more beautiful than he had dreamed she would be; brilliant, bewitching, and the flowers of his past clustered round her.
"I heard them falling through the rooms, the light step and the heavy step."
Slowly by both her hands which he held he drew her toward him, and as he held her cheek against his lips he heard her murmur—
"Back from the dead! Cousin Antony.... No, just Antony!"
"Little cousin!" he said. "Bella!"
THE END
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