"I know one thing, Nellie; I'm a better man than I was
before, and it's all owin' to you."
His voice trembled a little, and the sympathetic tears came into her
eyes. She didn't speak at once-she couldn't At last she stopped him
by a touch on the arm.
"Jim, I want a partner in my store. Let us begin again, right here. I
can't say that I'll ever feel just as I did once I don't know as it's
right to. I looked up to you too much. I expected too much of you,
too. Let's' begin again, as equal partners." She held out her hand, as
one man to another. He took it wonderingly.
"All right, Nell; I'll do it."
Then, as he put his arm around her, she held up her lips to be
kissed. "And we'll be happy again-happy as we deserve, I s'pose,"
she said with a smile and a sigh.
"It's almost like getting married again, Nell-for me." As they
walked off up the sidewalk in the soft moon-light, their arms were
interlocked.
They loitered like a couple of lovers.
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