Men of Affairs Part 67

"You will be if you keep going to that door."

"I don't even know your name, but if you look at me like that, with laughter in your eyes--if you play the fool at such a time as this--how can I possibly keep my resolve."

"What resolve?"

"To go away and never come back."

"Come here," said Richard Frencham Altar, "come here at once."

"Oh, please," she pleaded. "Honestly, my dear, I'm not up to much and I know you are going to think I am. Oh, what are you going to do?"

This because his arms had gone round her and he had raised her chin to the level of his own.

"I'm going to start on the greatest adventure of all," he answered.

THE END.