What a dear she is! She is willing to marry him now; but Scott strikes attitudes and declares she shall have a man whose name stands for an achievement--meaning, of course, the Seagrave process for the extermination of the Rose-beetle.
"Duane, I am quite unaccountably happy to-day.

Nothing seems to threaten.

But don't stop loving me." Followed three letters less confident, and another very pitiful--a frightened letter asking him to come if he could.

But his father's condition forbade it and he dared not.
Then another letter came, desperate, almost incoherent, yet still bearing the red cross faintly traced.

And on the heels of it a telegram: "Could you stand by me until this is over?
I am afraid of to-night.
Am on my way to town with my maid, very ill.