"Heaven intended us for each other, and for no one else.

You shall be mine past the power of any one human to part us ere the morrow's light dawns, if--if you wish it so." She clung to him, weeping hysterically, answering: "Oh, yes, Lester, let it be so.

I will marry you, and you will take me away from this place, where no one, save Claire--not even my father--loves me." He strained her to his throbbing heart with broken words, but at that instant the shriek of an approaching train sounded upon his ears.

He tore himself away from her encircling embrace.
"To do all that I have to do, I must return to the city, quickly arrange for the marriage and a suitable place to take my bride.

I will return by ten o'clock.