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Homeward again in the starlit night,
Sill in that whirl of exultation. 1t was
somewhat chillier now, and Allison
bundled her into the machine with
rough tenderness. She felt the thrill
or him as he sat beside her, and the
hrm strength with which he controlled
the swiftly speeding runabout. was
part her strength. They were kindred
spirits, these two, soaring above the
aHairs OF earth u the serene compla-
cency Of those Who make trifies of
vastness itself. They did not talk
much, for they had not much to talk
about. The details of a scheme SO
comprehensive as Allison's were not
things to be explained, they were
things to be seen in a vision. Once
she asked him about the bringing of
the foreign railroads into the combina-
ton, and he told her that this would
only be accomplished by a political up
heaVal, which would take place next
month, and would probably involve the
whole OF Europe. 1t q another de-
tail; and it seeued quite natural. She
was so interested that he told her all
about his foreign visitors.
In the park, Allison stopped at the
fttle outlook house where they had
climbed on that snowy night, and they
stood there, with the stars above, the
trees below and The twinkling lights
stretching out to the horizon, all alone
above the world of civilization. Be-
low sounded the elang Of street cars,
and far of to tho left, high in the air.
there cleaned the lights of a curving
l. train. That was a part of Allison's
world which he had long since con.
Suered, a part which he already held
m the hollow q His hand; and the fact
tnat every moving thing which chung
upon a track In all this vast pano.
rama was under his dominion, served
only TO illustrate and make plain the
marvel of the accomplishment which
was now under way. Beyond that dim
Aorizon lay another and still anethes,
and IN them all, wherever things
moved or were transported, the lift Of
Ailison's finger was to start and stop
the wheels, to tbs uttermost confines
OF the earth! Oh, 1t was wonderful;
wonderfully! And she was part of II!
1t was there that he proposed to her.
1t did not surprise her. She had
known 1t when they had entered the
park, and that this was the place.
He told her that all this empire was
being builded to lay at her feet, that
she was the empress of it and he the
emperor, but that their JOY was to be
not in the sway, not in the scepter and
crown, but in the doing, and In the
having done, and in the conceiving
and having conceived.
Vas this a cold painting of pomp
and glory and advantage and reward ?
He added to 1t tie fire of a lover, and
to that the force and mastery and
compulsion of his dynamic power. She
felt again the potent thrill of him, and
he might and sweep and drive of him,
and with the hot, tumbling words of
love in her ears, and her senses a-reel,
and her mind In it's whirling exulta-
ton, she felt between them a sympa-
thy and a union which it was not in
human strength to deny! Something
held her back, something made her
withhold the word of promise, on the
plea that she must have more time to
mink, to consider, to straighten out
the tangle of her mind; but she sui.
fered him to sweep her in his arms,
and rain hot kisses upon her face, and
30 tell her. over and over and wei and
over, that she belonged to him. for
aver and foreveri