"I will, if you don't mind," he said. "See you later at Charlie's." And in a flash of tawdry attire, he was gone. The mayor of Reuton no longer sat limp in his seat. That brief moment of seeming surrender was put behind forever. He walked the aisle of the car, fire in his eyes, battle in his heart. "So they're waiting for me, eh?" he said aloud. "Waiting for Jim Cargan. Now ain't it nice of them to come and meet their mayor?" Mr. Magee and the professor went into the day coach for their baggage. Mrs. Norton motioned to the former. "Well," she said, "you know now, I suppose. And it didn't do you no harm to wait. I sure am glad this to-do is all over, and that child is safe. And I hope you'll remember what I said. It ain't no work for a woman, no how, what with the shooting and the late hours." "Your words," said Mr. Magee, "are engraven on my heart." He proceeded to gather her baggage with his own, and was thus engaged when Kendrick came up. The shadow of his discovery in the smoking-car an hour before still haunted his sunken eyes, but his lips were half smiling with the new joy of living that had come to him. "Mr. Magee," he began, "I hardly need mention that the terrible thing which happened--in there--is between you and me--and the man who's dead. No one must know. Least of all, the girl who is to become my wife--it would embitter her whole life--as it has mine." "Don't say that," Magee pleaded. "You will forget in time, I'm sure. And you may trust me--I had forgotten already." And indeed he had, on the instant when his eyes fell upon the _Reuton Star_. Miss Thornhill approached, her dark smiling eyes on Magee. Kendrick looked at her proudly, and spoke suddenly, determinedly: "You're right, I will forget. She shall help me." "Mr. Magee," said the girl, "I'm so pleased at the splendid end to your impulsive philanthropy. I just knew the adventure couldn't have anything but a happy ending--it was so full of youth and faith and--and charity or its synonym. This mustn't be good-by. You must come and see me--come and see us--all." "I shall be happy to," answered Magee sincerely. "It will always be a matter of regret to me that I was not able to serve you--also--on Baldpate Mountain. But out of it you come with something more precious than fine gold, and that shall be my consolation." "Let it be," smiled Myra Thornhill, "as it is surely mine. Good-by." "And good luck," whispered Magee, as he took Kendrick's hand. Over his shoulder, as he passed to the platform, he saw them look into each other's eyes, and he felt that the memory of the admiral's game would in time cease to haunt David Kendrick.