ia's heart was too full to say anything. She lay in Paul's strong
arms, her cheek against his. There she would remain for the rest of her
life, protected from storm and tempest. And as they sat in silence, the
chimes of an ancient grandfather's clock, Deborah's chief treasure, rang
out twice, thrice and again. Paul laughed softly.

"It's like wedding-bells," he whispered, and his future wife sighed a
sigh of heart-felt joy.

THE END

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Transcriber's Note

In this the ASCII version, accents have been dropped.

The advert ("The Best Novels by Fergus Hume") was originally at the
front of the book, but has been moved to the end.

The following typographical corrections have been made:

(page 8) "furthur" changed to "further"
(page 11) "Notebook" changed to "Note-book"
(page 33) "lookout" changed to "look-out"
(page 49) "eyeglass" changed to "eye-glass"
(page 59) "hand-bag" changed to "handbag"
(pages 71, 85) "agoin'" changed to "a-goin'"
(page 71) "It" changed to "If" in "If we come to"
(page 84) quotation mark added after "look--look--"
(page 109) "Deborrah" changed to "Deborah"
(page 111) quotation mark added before "How dare you"
(page 113) "pou" changed to "you" ("before you became an heiress")
(page 132) "is" changed to "it" ("that is was picked up")
(page 140) "mid-night" changed to "midnight"
(page 163) "schoolfellow" changed to "school-fellow"
(page 173) "non-plussed" changed to "nonplussed"
(page 180) "handb