About midnight everybody but Charles and Daniel got out of the coach. Comfortably ensconced, the two young men might have slept, but Charles was too nervous and excited to sleep, and Daniel was not far behind him. "Daniel," said Charles, suddenly breaking the silence that had fallen upon them, though each knew the other was not sleeping, "by what name did she go? Your mother spoke of her as Miss Montgomery. Was that the name she gave?" "Yes," said Daniel, wondering; "Mary Montgomery." "It was her mother’s name," said Charles reverently. Dawn had talked to him of her mother on their wedding trip. "Daniel, there is something more that perhaps I ought to tell you. Did she tell you that she and I are married?" "No," said Dan. His voice was shaking as he tried to take in the thought. It was as if he were expecting an unbearable pain in a nerve that had already throbbed its life out and was at rest. He was surprised to find how natural it seemed. Then he stammered out: "I guess I must have known, though. She said she belonged to you, and so nobody else could take care of her." "Thank you for telling me that," said Charles. He laid his hand warmly on Dan’s. The boy liked his touch. Rags, who was sleeping at their feet, nestled closer to them both with a sleepy whine. He was content now that he was really on his way. "I guess," said Dan chokingly—"I guess I better tell you the whole, because I like you, and you’re the right kind. You seem like what she ought to have, and I’m glad it’s you—but—it was kind of hard, because, you see, I’d have liked to take care of her myself. I didn’t know about you till she told me, and though I knew, of course, I wasn’t much to look at beside her, I could have done a lot for her, and I mean to go to college yet, any way, just to show her. You see, I guess it ain’t right to go along with you to see her, and not tell you what I said to her. I told her I loved her! And it was true, too. I’d have died for her if it was necessary. If that makes any difference to you, Rags and I’ll get out and walk back now. I thought I ought to tell you. I couldn’t help loving her, could I, when she did so much for me? And, you see, I never knew about you." It was a long speech for the silent Dan to make, but Charles’s warm hand-grasp through it all helped wonderfully, as well as Dan’s growing liking for Dawn’s husband.