And so within a few weeks our little ladies from their observatory saw

a mighty bustle in the Wilderness, when two-horse carriages came, and

coachmen with favors, to bear away the twos who were destined to come

back one. And they themselves in their crackling silk dresses went

across, as invited, to the big double wedding breakfast which was held

in the house of Doctor Walker. Then there was health-drinking, and

laughter, and changing of dresses, and rice-throwing when the carriages

drove up again, and two more couples started on that journey which ends

only with life itself.

Charles Westmacott is now a flourishing ranchman in the western part

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of Texas, where he and his sweet little wife are the two most popular

persons in all that county. Of their aunt they see little, but from time

to time they see notices in the papers that there is a focus of light

in Denver, where mighty thunderbolts are being forged which will one day

bring the dominant sex upon their knees. The Admiral and his wife still

live at number one, while Harold and Clara have taken number two, where

Doctor Walker continues to reside.

As to the business, it had been reconstructed, and the energy and ability of the junior partner had soon made up for all the ill that had been done by his senior. Yet with his

sweet and refined home atmosphere he is able to realize his wish, and

to keep himself free from the sordid aims and base ambitions which drag

down the man whose business lies too exclusively in the money market

of the vast Babylon. As he goes back every evening from the crowds of

Throgmorton Street to the tree-lined peaceful avenues of Norwood, so he

has found it possible in spirit also to do one's duties amidst the babel

of the City, and yet to live beyond it.



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