[Illustration: "If anything should happen, you will remember?">[
She clung to his arm. She had no words. Never again was she to hear the chimes without that poignant memory of her father begging her to remember the best—.
"I have been thinking," he said, out of a long silence, "of you and Derry. I—I want you to marry him, dear, before I go."
"Before you go—Daddy—"
"Yes. Emily says I have no right to stand in the way of your happiness. And I have no right. And some day, perhaps, oh, my little Jean, my grandchildren may hear the chimes—"
White and still, she stood with her face upturned to the stars. "Life is so wonderful, Daddy."
And this time she said it out of a woman's knowledge of what life was to mean.
They went in, to find that the Connollys had retired. Jean slept in a great feather-bed. And all the night the chimes in the College tower struck the hours—