"To see Mary Garland is just what I want.

And my mother--my mother can't hurt me now." "You will write, then ?" "I will telegraph.

They must come, at whatever cost.

Striker can arrange it all for them." In a couple of days he told Rowland that he had received a telegraphic answer to his message, informing him that the two ladies were to sail immediately for Leghorn, in one of the small steamers which ply between that port and New York.

They would arrive, therefore, in less than a month.