“Dear Allan,” it ran, “Your letter was the dearest wedding gift of all; to know that you had found the right girl and that you are happy was just the one thing needed to give the crowning touch to my own happiness. So you see that I was right! I’ve never doubted it for an instant, but just the same I’m glad it’s proved. I’m scribbling this at the last moment, for your letter just came; there’s the wedding march—I must go. I’m very, very happy, Allan, and I suppose that this is the last time I shall ever sign myself BETTY HEYWOOD.” Allan looked up from the letter, his eyes shining. “She’s a dear girl,” he said. “Yes,” agreed Mamie, a little doubtfully. “But not the dearest,” added Allan smiling. “Come here. Look what a beautiful sunset. Look at those crimson clouds along the horizon.” “Who is the dearest?” asked Mamie, refusing to be led aside from the question under discussion. “Can’t you guess?” “I’m not good at guessing.” “It’s the same one I jerked from in front of an engine years and years ago; the same one I used to do sums for; the same one who saved my life just the other day. Now can you guess?” “Yes,” said Mamie, dimpling and snuggling close to him; “yes, I think I can!” * * * * * And so we leave them. What does the future hold? For one thing, be sure that it holds happiness. Be sure, too, that the young train master will not always be merely that. He can afford to wait—to grow and broaden, to learn his business thoroughly; but the time will come when he will step up and up. Yet, however high he climbs, those first years, whose history we know, will be a sweet and ever-present memory, as years of trial always are when one has emerged from them triumphant. THE END. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ =BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE= ------------------------------------ THE LITTLE COLONEL BOOKS (Trade Mark) _By ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON_ _Each 1 vol., large 12mo, cloth, illustrated, per vol._ $1.50 =THE LITTLE COLONEL STORIES= (Trade Mark) Being three “Little Colonel” stories in the Cosy Corner Series, “The Little Colonel,” “Two Little Knights of Kentucky,” and “The Giant Scissors,” put into a single volume. =THE LITTLE COLONEL’S HOUSE PARTY= (Trade Mark) =THE LITTLE COLONEL’S HOLIDAYS= (Trade Mark) =THE LITTLE COLONEL’S HERO= (Trade Mark) =THE LITTLE COLONEL AT BOARDING SCHOOL= (Trade Mark) =THE LITTLE COLONEL IN ARIZONA= (Trade Mark) =THE LITTLE COLONEL’S CHRISTMAS VACATION= (Trade Mark) =THE LITTLE COLONEL, MAID OF HONOUR= (Trade Mark) =THE LITTLE COLONEL’S KNIGHT COMES RIDING= (Trade Mark)