I'm not sure there is anything to prevent it, but neither am I sure it would be quite the square thing--are you ?" "Why, of course it's all right," said Necia, her eager face clouding with the look of a hurt child.

"If you don't do it, somebody else will." But the Lieutenant shook his head.

"Maybe I'm foolish, but I can't see my way clear, much as I would like to." "Oh, dear! Oh, dear!" she exclaimed, brokenly.

"I do so want to go.

I want you to be rich, and I want to be rich myself.