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As long as you like to stay -- '' And now Mary sobbed -- a little slip of a thing in her father 's arms . All the long months she had kept her secret , holding it safe in her heart , dreading yet longing for the moment when she could tell the world that she was the wife of Truxton Beaufort , whom she had adored from babyhood . `` I would have married him , Dad , if -- if I had had to tramp the road . '' Truxton came on the noon train . He drove at once to Huntersfield with his mother , was embraced by the Judge , kissed Becky , and suddenly disappeared . `` Where 's he gone ? '' the Judge asked , irritably .