breakfast, you know. Your father asked me."
"I said always."
_Conductor Graffo_, coming out of the telegraph office with a scrap of
tissue paper in his hand: "All abo-o-ard!"
"That parts us again," said Brockway, sorrowfully. "Good-night, dear;
God keep you safe"--the air-brakes sighed sympathetically, and he kissed
her hand and released it--"till to-morrow." His face was at the window,
and two soft arms came out of the square of darkness and went about his
neck, and two lips that he could not see brushed his cheek.
"Till to-morrow," she repeated; and then the train began to move and she
let him go quickly that he might run no risk of stumbling.
The engine groaned and strained, filling the air with a jarring as of
nearby thunder; the steam hissed from the cylinders, and the great
driving-wheels began once more to measure the rails. Brockway swung
lightly up to the step of the Tadmor, and when the last switch-lamp had
shot backward into the night, went to his berth to wrestle with his
happiness until tardy sleep came, bringing in its train a beatific
vision in which the song of the drumming wheels became the overture to a
wedding march, and the mellow blasts of the whistle rang a merry peal of
joy-bells.
THE IVORY SERIES
AMOS JUDD. By J. A. Mitchell, Editor of "Life"
IA. A Love Story. By Q. [Arthur T. Quiller-Couch]
THE SUICIDE CLUB. By Robert Louis Stevenson
IRRALIE'S BUSHRANGER. By E. W. Hornung
A MASTER SPIRIT. By Harriet Prescott Spofford
MADAME DELPHINE. By George W. Cable
ONE OF THE VISCONTI. By Eva Wilder Brodhead
A BOOK OF MARTYRS. By Cornelia Atwood Pratt
A BRIDE FROM THE BUSH. By E. W. Hornung
THE MAN WHO WINS. By Robert Herrick
AN INHERITANCE. By Harriet Prescott Spofford
THE OLD GENTLEMAN OF THE BLACK STOCK. By Thomas Nelson Page
LITERARY LOVE LETTERS AND OTHER STORIES. By Robert Herrick
A ROMANCE IN TRANSIT. By Francis Lynde
IN OLD NARRAGANSETT. By Alice Morse Earle
SEVEN MONTHS A PRISONER. By J. V. Hadley
"IF I WERE A MAN." By Harrison Robertson
SWEETHEARTS AND WIVES. By Anna A. Rogers
A CIVILIAN ATTACHE. By Helen Dawes Brown