ed you were near me, but your nature seemed to have changed, for,
instead of its making me happy, I was frightfully distressed. The next
day I was very ill, and unable to get up; but during the morning I fell
asleep and had another dream, which was intensely realistic and made me
believe--yes, convinced me--that you were well. After that dream I
soon recovered; but oh, the anguish of the first!"

Ayrault did not tell her then that he had been near her, and of his
unspeakable suffering, of which hers had been but the echo.

Three weeks later a clergyman tied the knot that was to unite them
forever.

While Sylvia and Ayrault were standing up to receive the
congratulations of their friends, Bearwarden, in shaking his hand, said:

"Remember, we have been to neither Uranus, nor Neptune, nor Cassandra,
which may be as interesting as anything we have seen. Should you want
to take another trip, count me as your humble servant." And Cortlandt,
following behind him, said the same thing.

Shortly after this, Sylvia went up-stairs to change her dress, and when
she came down she and Ayrault set out on their journey together through
life, amid a chorus of cheers and a shower of rice.

Cortlandt then returned to his department at Washington, and Bearwarden
resumed his duties with the Terrestrial Axis Straightening Company, in
the presidential chair.

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