i added with enthusiasm for i now saw what the poor girl must have suffered didn t try to go further did he he did she said her voice trembling with emotion he set the time and place for the wedding issued the cards provided me with a � a based upon his of what a ought to be and therefore about as satisfactory to a woman a rebellious heroine of taste as that silk costume of the garden party he engaged the chose my � girls i detested � and finally assembled the guests the groom was there at the rail mr whom he had selected to give me away was waiting outside in the clad in his a flower in his button hole and his arm ready for the bride to lean on the minister was behind the rail the wedding march was sounding � and you i cried utterly unable to contain myself longer i was past on the three o clock express � bound hither she answered with a significant toss of her head no one but yourself knows where i am and i have summoned you to explain my action before a summons north you hear of it from him i do not wish to be had his warning but he chose to it and he can get out of the difficulty he has brought upon himself in his own way � possibly he will destroy the whole book but i wanted you to know that while he did not keep the faith i did i suddenly realized the appalling truth my own weakness was responsible for it all i had not told of my interview and her promise feeling that it was not necessary and fearing its effect upon his pride i may add she said quietly that i am bitterly disappointed in your friend i was interested in him and believed in him most of my acts of rebellion � if you can call me rebellious � were prompted by my desire to keep o a rebellious heroine him true to his creed and i will tell you what i have never told to another i regarded almost as an ideal man but this has changed it all if he was what i thought him he could not have acted with so little conscience as to try to force this match upon me when he must have known that i did not love henry he didn t know i said he should have been sure before providing for the ceremony after hearing what i had promised you i would and would not do said but � i never told him anything about your promise i shouted desperately he has done all this is that true didn t you tell him she cried eagerly grasping my hand a summons north her manner left no doubt in my mind as to who the hero of her choice would be � and again i sighed to think that it was not i as true as that i stand here i said i never told him she shrugged her shoulders oh well you know what i mean i said excitedly wherever i do stand it s as true as that i stand there the phrase was awkward but it fulfilled its purpose why didn t you tell him she asked because i didn t think it necessary fact is i added i had a sort of notion that if you married anybody in one of s books if had his own way it would be to the man who tells the o a rebellious heroine a loud noise interrupted my remark and i started up in alarm and in an instant i found myself back in my rooms in town once more the little mountain house near lake george with its interesting and beautiful guest had faded from sight and i realized that somebody was with a stick upon my door there i cried what s wanted it s i � came s voice let me in i unlocked the door and he entered the brown of had gone and he was his broken self again well i said trying to his appearance which really shocked me how s the book got it done he sank into a chair with a groan a summons north hang the book � it s all up with that i m going to to morrow and call the thing off he said she won t work � two weeks steady application gone for nothing oh come i said not as bad as that precisely as bad as that he retorted what can a fellow do if his heroine as completely as if the earth had opened and swallowed her up gone i cried with difficulty my desire to laugh completely � searched high and low for her � no earthly use he answered i can t even imagine where she is all of which my dear i said a superior tone for the moment shows that an imagination that is worth something wouldn t be a a rebellious heroine bad possession for a after all i know where your heroine is she is at a little mountain house near lake george and she has fled there to escape your of a hero whom you should have known better than to force upon a girl like you re getting my dear boy sacrifice something to the american girl but don t sacrifice your art just because the girl likes her stories to end up with a wedding is no reason why you should try to condemn your heroine to life long misery looked at me with a puzzled expression for a full minute how the deuce do you know anything about it he asked i immediately enlightened him i told him every circumstance � even my a summons north suspicion as to the hero of her heart and it seemed to please 