kind? I think I would sooner risk keeping my seat on a wild mustang."

"You can do it, Sedgwick," said Jack. "You must do it. I would not feel
half married unless you were present, and then, did you not promise to
come and see me through?"

"Who will give away the bride?" asked Sedgwick.

The question seemed to startle Browning. "That reminds me," he said,
doubtingly, "that I have neither seen my governor nor old man Jenvie.
I left home telling mother and Grace that before I went home to live I
would have to be invited by the governor. And that reminds me, too, Jim,
there must not be a word about my money. I have only carried the idea
that I worked for three years in the mines in America. They will reckon
it up and conclude that if I was prudent I may have saved £400 or £500."

"That reminds me," said Sedgwick, "that no one must know that I have
anything more than the savings of three or four years' work. It would
give you away if the facts were known about my little fortune. But, Jack,
could you not get along just as well without me? You ought to be in your
own home and ought to enjoy every moment of time, while I am, in this
vast waste of houses, what one solitary monkey would be in a South
American wilderness."

"I will not hear of it, old pard," said Browning. "You see, if the
governor asks me home you will go with me, and we will cabin together as
of old. We will, by Jove! If he does not, then you must help me hold the
fort in this hotel until I can bring my wife here," and he blushed like
a girl when he spoke the word "wife."