good arranged. I have telegraphed
to Dresden about a larger apartment, and those papers from the lawyers
in New York waited here when you came. We may not marry like peasants,
you and I, you know."

She felt completely overcome.

"_To-morrow!_" she said, at last.

"Yes," he said placidly; "I am much hasted to be again in the north, and
we have arranged with the consuls--your consul and my consul--for
to-morrow."

"But my steamer passage!"

"Oh, that your cousin has given up; all the money has been returned. I
think for a little that we will go with him as far as Naples, but I go
and look at your stateroom this morning, and I have just a _centimetre_
more than the berth."

Rosina was forced to laugh; her humor began to bubble riotously upwards
at the notion of Von Ibn and Jack measuring the berth that morning. He
did not know why she laughed, but he kissed her without caring.

"For me there is no comfort under two _metres_," he declared vigorously.

Just then the owner of the room tried the door.

"This is my room," he called through the crack.

They looked at each other, and she ran lightly to the door, unlocked it
and let her cousin enter.

"You fearful liar!" she exclaimed, as he put his arm about her, and held
out the spare hand to her lover. "Oh, Jack, you awful, _awful_ liar,
what shall I say to you?"

"Say to him that you are most happy," her lover suggested.

Jack was beaming.

"I never said a word that wasn't true," he declared. "You asked me if
the letter was from him, and I said that he wasn't writing any letters
these days, and then I said that he was going crazy."

"And that was most true," the other man broke in; "I have no manner to
think left in my head these later nights."

"And you began to scream that you must go to him, and I told you that
you could go; and I see that you went."

Von Ibn crossed to the chimney-piece and picked up a cigarette and a
match. He was smiling to himself.

"She consents to be married to-morrow," he said, facing about.

"Yes," said Rosina airily; "I see that conventionality and I are to be
more two than ever henceforth, so I am going to yield up my own way at
once."

"You are a brave fellow," Jack said to his friend; "I have always been
able to do more with her than any one else, but, honestly, I tell you
that I, even I, would never dare to undertake her forever."

Von Ibn lit his cigarette and laughed.

"She will obey me," he said easily; "she wi