"_I_ was.... They’re good children—good children—like my own.... If you will excuse me, I will go and telegraph my wife.... It will be a happiness to her—a great happiness." Jack thrust a glass into his hand. "What’s this?" demanded his father. "We are to drink health to them, dad." Mr. Rivett inspected his glass, hesitated, while all waited; then, lifting it: [Illustration: "’Health, happiness, prosperity to them.’"] "They’re good children," he said. "Health, happiness, prosperity to them—and—to the house of Edgerton, Tennant and Company! ... Break your glasses!" THE END * * * * * * * * *Works of Robert W. Chambers* Japonette The Common Law The Adventures of a Modest Man Ailsa Paige The Danger Mark Special Messenger The Firing Line The Younger Set The Fighting Chance Some Ladies in Haste The Tree of Heaven The Tracer of Lost Persons A Young Man in a Hurry Lorraine Maids of Paradise Ashes of Empire The Red Republic Outsiders The Green Mouse Iole The Reckoning The Maid-at-Arms Cardigan The Haunts of Men The Mystery of Choice The Cambric Mask The Maker of Moons The King in Yellow In Search of the Unknown The Conspirators A King and a Few Dukes In the Quarter *For Children* Garden-Land Mountain-Land Forest-Land Orchard-Land River-Land Outdoor-Land Hide and Seek in Forest-Land