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256 will never do! We must end this romance of dots and dashes as it commenced, to make it truly 'Wired Love! "True enough! so we must!" answered Clem merrily, and rising, he went to the "key," with his eyes looking straight into Nattie's, and wrote something that made her blush and seize his hand in shy and unnecessary alarm, saying,

"Suppose Jo should be over in your room! He might be able to read it!" "Very well," replied Clem, as he laughed and kissed her, regardless of the spectator. "I am quite content to make love like common mortals, Cyn, and I hope, my darling Nattie, that we are done now with all 'breaks' and 'crosses,' as we are with Wired Love. Henceforth ours shall be the pure, unalloyed article, genuine love!" And Nattie, half-laughing, half-serious, but wholly glad, took the key and wrote,

"O. K."

If any one is anxious to know what Clem wrote when Nattie stopped him, here it is.