My letter will be a merely business one--you shall read it if you like---" "Oh no!"-- she said at once, with proud frankness; "I would not doubt your word!" Gwent gave her a comprehensively admiring glance.

Even in the dusk of evening her beauty shone with the brilliance of a white flower among the dark foliage.

"What a sensation she would make in New York!" he thought--"With those glorious eyes and that hair!" And a vague regret for his lost youth moved him; he was a very wealthy man, and had he been in his prime he would have tried a matrimonial chance with this unspoilt beautiful creature,--it would have pleased him to robe her in queenly garments and to set the finest diamonds in her dark tresses, so that she should be the wonder and envy of all beholders.

He answered her last remark with a kindly little nod and smile.
"Good! You needn't doubt it ever!"-- he said--"If at any time you want a friend you can bet on Sam Gwent.

I'm a member of Congress and you can always find me easily.