Come with me, girl--be my wife, and together we will find--if not paradise, at least a full and useful and contented and happy life.

Will you come, Kitty?
Will you come with me ?" As she listened her eyes grew big with wonder and delight.

It was as though some good genie had suddenly opened wide the way to an enchanted laud.

Then the gladness went swiftly from her face, and she said doubtingly, "You are jesting with me, Patches." As she spoke his cowboy name, the man laughed aloud.

"I forgot that you do not even know me--I mean, that you do not know my name." "Are you some fairy prince in disguise, Sir Patches ?" "Not a fairy, dear, and certainly not a prince; just a man, that's all.
But a man, dear girl, who can offer you a clean life, an honored name, and all of which I have spoken.