But, after all, no man can do that--no, nor no group of men, nor party!" His voice grew louder as the last strains of the music came more faintly from the street.

"They'll take your banner across the Rio Grande, Fanchon, but that is not all--some day its stars must spread over the world! Don't you all see that they will ?" After a little while, he closed his eyes with a sigh; the doctor bent over him quickly, and Miss Betty started forward unconsciously and cried out.
But the bright eyes opened again and fixed themselves upon her with all their old, gay inscrutability.
"Not yet," said Crailey.

"Miss Carewe, may I tell you that I am sorry I could not have known you sooner?
Perhaps you might have liked me for Fanchon's sake--I know you care for her." "I do--I do!" she faltered.

"I love her, and--ah!--I do like you, Mr.
Gray, for I know you, though I never--met you until--last night.

God bless you--God bless you!" She wavered a moment, like a lily in the wind, and put out a hand blindly.