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 Chester

Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full. (2 John:12.)

Ruth

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul. (Ps. 56: 6.) And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then I would fly away, and be at rest. (Ps. 55:6.) I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest. (Ps. 55:8.) That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me. (Ps. 60:5.)

Chester

And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what goodness the Lord shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee. (Num. 10:32.)

Ruth

Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me. (Ps. 40:7.) And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. (Ruth 1:16.)

"It is getting serious, isn't it?" said Valeska, when she brought the last message of Ruth's. "Poor Chester is half crazy. He's been working like mad to get some illustrations for The Universal Magazine done; so as to get money enough to get married on, I sup-