circumstance which has caused me to reveal so much
which I should have wished to keep concealed. I appeal
to you, gentlemen, to your sense of honour and of com-
passion, whether what I have told you should go any
farther or not. My own happiness, my daughter's
future, the hopes of this man's regeneration, all de-
pend upon your decision."

"Which is," said my friend, "that all is well that
ends well and that the whole matter ends here and at
once. To-morrow the loose settings shall be tightened
by an expert goldsmith, and so passes the greatest dan-
ger to which, since the destruction of the Temple, the
urim and thummim has been exposed. Here is my
hand, Professor Andreas, and I can only hope that
under such difficult circumstances I should have carried
myself as unselfishly and as well."

Just one footnote to this narrative. Within a month
Elise Andreas was married to a man whose name, had
I the indiscretion to mention it, would appeal to my
readers as one who is now widely and deservedly hon-
oured. But if the truth were known that honour is
due not to him, but to the gentle girl who plucked him
back when he had gone so far down that dark road
along which few return.

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