Rather I shall always think of her as a
handsome, stately old lady who was your friend and loved you."
She turned to leave him, but he refused to let her go.
"Delight," he cried, drawing her closer, "will your grandmother be
dearer to you because she loved me? Tell me, sweetheart! Do I mean
anything in your life? You are the only thing that matters in mine."
He saw a radiance flash into her wonderful eyes, and in another instant
her head was against his breast.
"It is only because of you, Bob," she whispered, clinging to him, "that
I can forgive the Lees at all."
CHAPTER XVIII
THE PROGRESS OF ANOTHER ROMANCE
The ecstasy that came to Robert Morton with his new-found happiness
swept before it the clouds that had overcast his sky, until his horizon
was almost as radiant as it had been on the day of his arrival at
Wilton. Janoah Eldridge came no more to the Spence cottage; Snelling
had vanished; the Galbraiths were occupied with their own affairs; and
the barrier between Bob and Willie began slowly to wear away.
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