Mary, thank God, can do without wealth." "Thorne, on one condition I will put her name into it.

I will alter it all on one condition.

Let the two cousins be man and wife--let Louis marry poor Mary's child." The proposition for a moment took away the doctor's breath, and he was unable to answer.

Not for all the wealth of India would he have given up his lamb to that young wolf, even though he had had the power to do so.

But that lamb--lamb though she was--had, as he well knew, a will of her own on such a matter.