This being done, I decided upon Hugh Worthington for a witness, as being the person, of all the world, who should be present at Adah's bridal.

He had recently come to New York.

I had accidentally made his acquaintance, acquiring so strong an influence over him that I could almost mold him to my will.

I did not tell him what I wanted until I had tempted him with drugged wine, and he did not realize what he was doing.

He knew enough, however, to sign his name and to salute the bride, who really was a bride, as lawful a one as any who ever turned from the altar where she had registered her vows." "Oh, joy, joy!" and Alice sprang at once to her feet, and hastening to the doctor's side, said to him, authoritatively: "You hear, you understand, Adah is your wife, your very own, and you must go back to her at once.