I hear he is to replace this good Doctor McLaughlin.

Well, his half-breed wife will at least have good setting up for her household.

Tell me, now," she concluded, "what became of the other shell from this clasp ?" "I gave it to an old man in Montreal," I answered.

I went on to show her the nature of the device, as it had been explained to me by old Doctor von Rittenhofen.
"How curious!" she mused, as it became more plain to her.

"Life, love, eternity! The beginning and the end of all this turmoil about passing on the torch of life.