Ferdy Wickersham was now one of the most talked-of young men in New York.

He had fulfilled the promise of his youth at least in one way, for he was one of the handsomest men in the State.

Mrs.Wickersham, in whose heart defeat rankled, vowed that she would never bow so low as to be an usher at that wedding.

But her son was of a deeper nature.

He declared that he was "abundantly able to manage his own affairs." At the wedding he was one of the gayest of the guests, and he and Miss Yorke were, as the newspapers stated, undoubtedly the handsomest couple of all the attendants.