"I couldn't begin to remember it all, but—Ada, darling, can you spare me to him?"
The last words were spoken in a tremulous half-whisper, her arm about her sister's neck, her lips close to her ear.
"I knew 'twould come to that before long!" sighed Ada, with a hug and a kiss, while tears sprang to her eyes. "O Zillah, dear, I believe my happiest days are over and gone!"
"No! No! no, darling! the very, very sweetest are yet to come! Love will be yours some day as it is mine to-night; and
'There's nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.'"
[CHAPTER XVII.]
"But happy they! the happiest of their kind!
Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate
Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend."
Wallace Ormsby sought and obtained a second interview with Mr. Keith that evening, in which he asked his senior partner to take him into still closer relations, and bestow upon him a priceless gift.