the railroad station, and she was trying to
persuade him that there would be months and years in which to make up
for the loveless blank, before sane speech found its opportunity. And
even then there were interruptions.

"I knew you'd be here; no, they didn't tell me, but I knew it--I would
have staked my life on it, Margery, girl," he said, in the first lucid
interval.

"And you--you've paid the Price, haven't you, Kenneth? but, oh, boy,
dear! I've paid it, too! Don't you believe me?"

There was another interruption, and because the carriage windows were
open, the negro driver grinned and confided a remark to his horses. Then
the transgressor began again.

"Where are you taking me, Margery?--not that it makes any manner of
difference."

"We are going by train to New Orleans, and this--this--very--evening we
are to be married, in Mr. Galbraith's house. And Uncle Andrew is going
to give the bride away. It's all arranged."

"And after?"

"Afterward, we are going away--I don't know where. I just told dear old
Saint Andrew to buy the tickets to anywhere he thought would be nice,
and we'd go. I don't care where it is--do you? And when we get there,
I'll buy you a pen and some ink and paper, and you'll go on writing the
book, just as if nothing had happened. Say you will, boy, dear; _please_
say you will! And then I'll know that--the price--wasn't--too great."

He was looking out of the carriage window when he answered her, across
to the levee and beyond it to the farther shore of the great river, and
his eyes were the eyes of a man who has seen of the travail of his soul
and is satisfied.

"I shall never write that book, little girl. That story, and all the
mistakes that were going to the making of it, lie on the other side
of--the Price. But one day, please God, there shall be another and a
worthier one."

"Yes--please God," she said; and the dark eyes were shining softly.

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