She threw her arms round his neck, and pressed her face against his shoulder.

"He is to me what you were to mamma," she said, so that only he could hear.
"Then be to him what she was to me," answered the general, kissing her.
"Ah me, little girl! I am old, but perhaps this is the right way for me to grow young again.

Well, if you are of the same mind six months hence----" "Worse; it will be much worse, then," murmured the professor.

"Better make it three." The chest was made of some alloy of steel and nickel, impervious to rust, and very hard.

It resisted all gentle methods of attack, and it was finally found necessary to force the lock with a charge of powder.
Within was found another case, which was pried open with the point of the general's bowie-knife.
It was filled to the brim with precious stones, most of them removed from their settings.