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was exactly half-past five o'clock on Saturday afternoon when Gladys Carleton pronounced those three words which made Larkington for the moment consider himself the most triumphant man in the wide world.

At exactly half-past five o'clock on the same Saturday afternoon, Charles Farwell said to Mr. John Cartwright, his only companion,—

"Jack, I must start for home to-night."

"You're not in earnest, Charlie?"

"Yes, old man, in dead earnest."

"What has made you change your mind so suddenly?"

Charles Farwell was silent, and Cartwright stood leaning against the damp wall of the mine. The only light that showed the two