to Amelius. What are
you standing there for? Let me by."

"Pardon me once more, sir. My master and Miss Sally do not receive
visitors today."

"Your master and Miss Sally?" Rufus repeated. "Has this old creature
been liquoring up a little too freely? What do you mean," he burst out,
with a sudden change of tone to stern surprise--"what do you mean by
putting your master and Sally together?"

Toff shot his bolt at last. "They will be together, sir, for the rest of
their lives. They were married this morning."

Rufus received the blow in dead silence. He turned about, and went back
to his hotel.

Reaching his room, he opened the despatch box in which he kept
his correspondence, and picked out the long letter containing the
description by Amelius of his introduction to the ladies of the Farnaby
family. He took up the pen, and wrote the indorsement which has been
quoted as an integral part of the letter itself, in the Second Book of
this narrative:--

"Ah, poor Amelius! He had better have gone back to Miss Mellicent, and
put up with the little drawback of her age. What a bright lovable fellow
he was! Goodbye to Goldenheart!"

Were the forebodings of Rufus destined to be fulfilled? This question
will be answered, it is hoped, in a Second Series of The Fallen Leaves.
The narrative of the married life of Amelius presents a subject too
important to be treated within the limits of the present story--and the
First Series necessarily finds its end in the culminating event of his
life, thus far.

THE END

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