They had called to Philip in their desperate need and he had come.
"Philip and the _Arrow_!" he exclaimed.

"We're saved!" "I knew that he would come!" Julie said, as she stared wide-eyed into the blue and gold of the heavens.
Now the aeroplanes flew at almost incredible speed, the _Arrow_ always at their head, poised for a few moments directly over their heads, and then came down in a dazzling series of spirals, landing almost at their feet.
"Philip, my brother!" exclaimed Julie, as the slender compact figure that they knew so well stepped gracefully from the _Arrow_.
He took off his heavy glasses and gazed at them as they stood, forgetting that they were still hand in hand.

Then he smiled and lifting his cap in his old dramatic way he said: "It seems that for several reasons I didn't come too soon." "No," replied John, calmly, and holding firmly the little hand in his, "you have arrived just in time to give your consent to my marriage with your sister." "And what does Mademoiselle Julie Lannes say ?" The rising sun clothed Julie in a shower of gold.

Never before had the wonderful golden hair seemed more wonderful.

Never before had she seemed to the youthful eyes of her lover more nearly divine.
"Julie Lannes says," she replied bravely, "that if John Scott wishes her to be his wife and her mother and brother consent she will gladly marry him." [Illustration: "Now the aeroplanes flew at almost incredible speed, the _Arrow_ always at their head"] "Then we must hurry away, or it will be a wedding; without either a bride or a bridegroom.