The next day, before starting for New York, she wrote a note to Senator North:--
I am going to marry Robert Burleigh. On Tuesday morning I almost went to your house--to bring you back with me here. I came to my senses in time; but I might not again. I want you to understand.
I wish he were not on the winning side. But he is the only man I can even think of marrying.
I do not think this much is disloyal to him. But I will not say other things. B. M.
Burleigh came to the train to see her off, and Betty looked so charming in her rich brown travelling frock and little turban, and smiled so gayly upon him, that his heavy spirit lifted its wings and he begged to be allowed to go to New York on Saturday. But to this she would not listen, and he was forced to content himself with making elabor
