"Don't give me away until I tell you to, Ned," he said, "but I
don't know but I am going to follow your example."

"My example?"

"Yes, going to get married."

The young man gasped. A look of surprise, of amusement, then of
generous sympathy came over his face. He grasped Lawton's hand.

"Who is she?"

"Oh, a woman I wanted more than anything in the world when I was
about your age."

"Then she isn't young?"

"She is better than young."

"Well," agreed the young man, "being young and pretty is not
everything."

"Pretty!" said Harry Lawton, scornfully, "pretty! She is a great
beauty."

"And not young?"

"She is a great beauty, and better than young, because time has
not touched her beauty, and you can see for yourself that it