HOW THE GOLD CAME DOWN Richard, ever modest and in this instance something timid, was for having the wedding celebrated in Senator Hanway's study.

He sought to give the preference an atmosphere of sentiment by saying it was there he first declared his love for Dorothy with his eyes.

Bess protested against the study, and insisted upon St.John's Church.

Richard was not to wed the most beautiful girl in the world, and then run away with her, making the affair a secret, as though he had stolen a sheep.

What! did Richard imagine that Dorothy had been weeks over a trousseau to have it extinguished in the narrow compass of Senator Hanway's study?
The marriage must be in St.John's where all mankind, or rather womankind, might witness and criticise.