"Now that you are in trouble I don't fear to tell you that I wanted you all the time.

When I read of your arrest I wanted to fly to you, to be near you, to sustain you.

This morning I told father of my intention to break the engagement.

And, do you know, he assented at once.

But he went into a rage when I told him I was coming here, although he seemed perfectly pleased to have me break with Lester." A person of duller intellect than Britz, from overhearing the conversation between Beard and the girl, would have discerned the romance in the lives of the couple.