Dear, good, companionable friends, as we used to be, long years ago, before this madness seized us--this chimera of--of love!" As a bull charging, is struck to the heart by the sword of the matador, and stops in his tracks, motionless and dazed before he falls, so "Tiger" Waldron stopped, wholly stunned by this abrupt and crushing denouement.
For a moment, man and woman faced each other.

Not a word was spoken.
Catherine had no word to say; and Waldron, though his lips worked, could bring none to utterance.

Then their eyes met; and his lowered.
"Good-bye," said she quietly.

"Good-bye forever, as my betrothed.

When we meet again, Wally, it will be as friends, and nothing more.