he
found it. The world is before us and we're free, Elice, free!"

Unconsciously, in answer to an instinct she obeyed without reason, the
girl too arose, an exaltation in her face no artist could reproduce nor
words describe.

"Yes," she said. "I see it all too at last. We've all been blind." She
caught her breath at the thought that would intrude, force it back as she
would. "And still we came so near, so very, very near--"

"Yes; but it's past." The man opposite was advancing. Not the impassive,
cold Darley Roberts the world knew, but the other Darley Roberts revealed
to one alone; the isolate human alone and lonely. "But it's past, past,
do you hear? And to-day is December the sixth, our anniversary--ours." He
halted, waiting. He smiled, with a tenderness infinite. "Is it 'Darley'
still, Elice? Won't you come and say it again?"

THE END

Transcriber's Notes:

Illustrations have been moved where necessary so that they are not
in the middle of a paragraph.

Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved as
printed, along with the author's punctuation style, except as
noted below [the correction is enclosed in brackets]. Minor
punctuation errors have been corrected without note.

Pg. 169: the old man re-repeated [repeated]

The following words have been found in both hyphenated and
unhyphenated form in the original text: top-coat (topcoat),
up-stairs (upstairs), near-by (nearby), house-warming (housewarming).
Their original hyphenation has been preserved.

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