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A day or two later, when Hugh awoke in his room in Tompkins Square it was with that sense of satisfaction which comes to a man who has done his duty. He had left orders in Richmond that a suitable monument be placed on his mother's grave, and he had contracted to have the cottage refurnished and rebuilt, for it was there the coming honeymoon was to be passed.
The party essential to the proper passing of that honeymoon was indeed intangible and remote, but what difficulties shall impede a lover armed with courage and mailed in hope? He had absolutely nothing at all to do but to unearth John Anderson, and that accomplished, to find Jenny, and behold! -- happiness, lifelong and uninterruptable, would crouch, a spaniel, at his feet.