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'I was going on—at first,' came the soft answer, 'when I heard something calling me, and found I couldn't. I had something to do here.'

'What?' he ventured under his breath.

'You!' She laughed in his face, so to speak. 'You, of course. Part of you is in me, so I couldn't go on without you. But when you are ready, and have done your work, we'll go on together. Daddy is waiting, too. Oh, it's simply splendid—a very-splendid-indeed aventure, you see! 'Again she laughed through that darkened room till it seemed filled with white light, and the light flooded his very soul as he heard her.

'You will wait, Nixie? 'he asked.

'I must wait. Both of us must wait. We are all together, you see.' And, after another long pause, he asked another question:

'This work, then, that keeps me here?'

'Your London boys, of course. There's no one in the whole world who can do it so well. You've been picked out for it; that's what really brought you home from America!' And she burst out into such a peal of laughter that Paul laughed with her. He simply couldn't help himself. He felt like singing at the same time. It was all so happy and reasonable and perfect.