"Make the bond a tighter one, next time, Leslie," she said, with a shy and radiant smile.
He stooped and clasped her fondly in his arms.
"Ah, darling," he answered, holding her tightly clasped to his wildly beating heart, "there shall be no blind, boyish mistake this time. There shall be a license that shall hold you mine as fast and tight forever as I hold you now in my arms!"
THE END.
[Transcriber's Notes:]
This story was first serialized in the New York Family Story Paper in 1881; the version used as the basis for this electronic text comes from Street & Smith's Eagle Series no. 192, which also contained the full text of another Mrs. Miller novel, Jacquelina.
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Some unusual spellings, such as using "hight" instead of "height" (a consistent habit of this author), are retained from the original.