's rich!" And Mrs. Hanway-Harley wept.

"I shall always love him, whatever he is!" exclaimed Dorothy, all
tenderness and fresh alarm.

Dorothy did not understand.

It was ten o'clock; the Potomac lay between its soft banks like a river
of silver. There was the throb of the engines, and the talk of the water
against her bows, as the _Dorothy Storms_ with her two passengers, they
and their love, swept onward through the moonlight. Dorothy, her head on
Richard's shoulder, and thinking on her mother and Bess and all she had
left behind, watched the V-shaped wake as it spread away in ripples to
either bank. Now and then a shore-light slipped by, to snuff out astern
as distance or a bend in the river extinguished it. Dorothy crept more
and more into the Pict arms.

"Dear, when did you name the _Dorothy Storms_?"

"The day after you precipitated yourself into my arms--and my heart."

"I think you were shamefully confident," whispered Dorothy, with a
delicious sigh.

Richard the brazen replied to the attack as became a lover and
gentleman.

And so they sailed away.

THE END

* * * * *

By the same Author

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A Story of the Inner Life of New York

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