Ethelinda had dried her eyes. Every few minutes she glanced anxiously at the little French clock over her easel. "What on earth can they be doing?" she murmured. And when the long hour struck she arose with resolution and knocked at the door. "Come in," said her father, irritably, "but don't interrupt. William and I are engaged in a very important business transaction." [Illustration: ] V SACHARISSA _Treating of Certain Scientific Events Succeeding the Wedding Journey of William and Ethelinda_ Sacharissa took the chair. She knew nothing about parliamentary procedure; neither did her younger, married sister, Ethelinda, nor the recently acquired family brother-in-law, William Augustus Destyn. "The meeting will come to order," said Sacharissa, and her brother-in-law reluctantly relinquished his new wife's hand--all but one finger. "Miss Chairman," he began, rising to his feet. The chair recognized him and bit into a chocolate. "I move that our society be known as The Green Mouse, Limited." "Why limited?" asked Sacharissa. "Why not?" replied her sister, warmly. "Well, what does your young man mean by limited?" "I suppose," said Linda, "that he means it is to be the limit. Don't you, William?" "Certainly," said Destyn, gravely; and the motion was put and carried. "Rissa, dear!" The chair casually recognized her younger sister. "I propose that the object of this society be to make its members very, very wealthy." The motion was carried; Linda picked up a scrap of paper and began to figure up the possibility of a new touring car. Then Destyn arose; the chair nodded to him and leaned back, playing a tattoo with her pencil tip against her snowy teeth. He began in his easy, agreeable voice, looking across at his pretty wife: "You know, dearest--and Sacharissa, over there, is also aware--that, in the course of my economical experiments in connection with your father's Wireless Trust, I have accidentally discovered how to utilize certain brand-new currents of an extraordinary character." Sacharissa's expression became skeptical; Linda watched her husband in unfeigned admiration. "These new and hitherto unsuspected currents," continued Destyn modestly, "are not electrical but psychical. Yet, like wireless currents, their flow eternally encircles the earth. These currents, I believe, have their origin in that great unknown force which, for lack of a better name, we call fate, or predestination. And I am convinced that by intercepting one of these currents it is possible to connect the subconscious personalities of two people of opposite sex who, although ultimately destined for one another since the beginning of things, have, through successive incarnations, hitherto missed the final consummation-- marriage!--which was the purpose of their creation." "Bill, dear," sighed Linda, "how exquisitely you explain the infinite." "Fudge!" said Sacharissa; "go on, William."