"Elfrida," he threatened, "if you go on the stage to-night in the costume I see so graphically advertised--an Austrian hussar, isn't it ?--I will attend.

I will take a box," he added, wondering at his own brutality.

But by any means he must prevail.
Elfrida turned a shade paler.

"You will not do that," she said gravely.

"Good-by.