life the touch of golden youth. He began to tremble under the force
of a wonderful thought. He sought a bench and sank upon it. It would
be a solution of his problem. He had come out to-day into the spring
sunshine, feeling his burden more than he could bear, for in his pocket
was a letter which put an end to the hope he had long cherished of at
length righting a great wrong.

There must be a way of doing what he wished. The consent of the Candy
Man once gained, that hateful fortune, which through these years had
been slowly crushing him, might become a minister of joy and well being,
might make possible for others those best things of life that he had
missed.

The thought thrilled him. He rose and walked on, back to the pavilion,
where he paused again to rest. There on the step lay the shabby book
with the funny name and the small oval bit cut from the fly leaf,
beneath which was the Candy Man's name, Robert Deane Reynolds.




CHAPTER FOURTEEN

_Shows how Mrs. Gerrard Pennington, unhappy and distraught, beseeches
Uncle Bob to help her save Margaret Elisabeth; also how Mr. Gerrard
Pennington comes to the rescue, and how in the end his wife submits
gracefully to the inevitable, which is not so bad after all._


When Mrs. Gerrard Pennington was shown into the room of the Little Red