you. I am willing to wait, for I am certain that so great and pure
a love as mine will be rewarded. All that I care to know is that
you do not love another. Will you tell me?"

"I have never been in love in my life," she replied, and he was
quite satisfied. On the way home that night he purchased a steam
yacht, and built a million-dollar villa on the Black Sea.

The next day Hazel Strong enjoyed one of the happiest surprises of
her life--she ran face to face upon Jane Porter as she was coming
out of a jeweler's shop.

"Why, Jane Porter!" she exclaimed. "Where in the world did you
drop from? Why, I can't believe my own eyes."

"Well, of all things!" cried the equally astonished Jane. "And
here I have been wasting whole reams of perfectly good imagination
picturing you in Baltimore--the very idea!" And she threw her arms
about her friend once more, and kissed her a dozen times.

By the time mutual explanations had been made Hazel knew that Lord
Tennington's yacht had put in at Cape Town for at least a week's
stay, and at the end of that time was to continue on her voyage--this
time up the West Coast--and so back to England. "Where," concluded
Jane, "I am to be married."

"Then you are not married yet?" asked Hazel.

"Not yet," replied Jane, and then, quite irrelevantly, "I wish
England were a million miles from here."