"I am glad
to hear that my fame, or perhaps my infamy, has reached even you."
Guy laughed.
"I don't think there is much question of infamy," he said. "I fancy that
over here you will find yourself a very popular person indeed."
"Even," Phineas Duge answered, "although I allowed my niece to run away
from home and come over here on a wild-goose chase. It was one of my
mistakes, but Virginia has forgiven it. I suppose she has told you
everything now."
"Everything," Guy answered, "and we should like to be married as soon as
you will allow it."
"What about your people?" Duge asked.
Guy smiled.
"I fancy," he said, "that there will be no difficulty at all about
that."
"You two," Phineas Duge said, "seem to have come across one another in a
very unconventional manner, and yet, after all, it seems as though you
were doing the thing which your people over here look upon at any rate
with tolerance. I have only two girls to leave my millions to. You must
send your solicitor to see me to-morrow."
"Virginia knows," Guy answered, "that I should be only too glad to have
her without a sixpence."
"I myself am fond of money," Phineas Duge answered, smiling, "but I
think that if I were your age I should feel very much the same.
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