p 'em off whenever you get tired of 'em." He
pushed Northwick's sleeves down over them with shame-faced anxiety.
"Don't let people see the damned things, for God's sake!'"

"That's good!" murmured Northwick, as if the feel of the iron pleased
him.

The incident turned Pinney rather sick. He went out on the platform of
the car for a little breath of air, and some restorative conversation
with the brakeman. When he came back, Northwick was sitting where he
left him. His head had fallen on his breast. "Poor old fellow, he's
asleep," Pinney thought. He put his hand gently on Northwick's shoulder.
"I'll have to wake you here," he said. "We'll be in, now, in a minute."

Northwick tumbled forward at his touch, and Pinney caught him round the
neck, and lifted his face.

"Oh, my God! He's dead!"

The loosened handcuffs fell on the floor.

XI.

After they were married, Suzette and Matt went to live on his farm; and
it was then that she accomplished a purpose she had never really given
up. She surrendered the whole place at Hatboro' to the company her
father had defrauded. She had no sentiment about the place, such as had
made the act impossible to Adeline, and must have prevented the
sacrifice on Suzette's part as long as her sister lived. But suffering
from that and from all other earthly troubles was past for Adeline; she
was dead; and Suzette felt it no wrong to her memory to put out of her
own hands the property which something higher than the logic of the case
forbade her to keep. As far as her father was concerned, she took his
last act as a sign that he wished to make atonement for the wrong he had
committed; and she felt that the surrender of this property to his
creditors was in the line of his endeavor. She had strengthened herself
to bear his conviction and punishment, if he came back; and since he was
dead, this surrender of possessions tainted for her with the dishonesty
in which the unhappy man had lived was nothing like loss; it was rather
a joyful relief.

Yet it was a real sacrifice, and she was destined to feel it in the
narrowed conditions of her life. But she had become used to narrow
conditions; she had learned how little people could live with when they
had apparently nothing to live for; and now that in Matt she had
everything to live for, the surrender of all she had in the world left
her incalculably rich.

Matt rejoiced with her in her decision, though he had carefully kept
himself fr