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YY ae set ina desperate, conden the att ly the txiwardes Operation coul: a owe 4 hea ela her that bi CHAPTER XXV. 4: (Continued.) } HE door opened, and the aff came in, But where ro before they had moved ra heavily, with drooped heads, now they came J sagabotely, as men with @ purpo @here was o@ tall man in a white edat with them, He orvered them 4 Agbout ike obildren, and they ‘fikatened to do his will, At first Bidney only knew that now, at last, they were going to do something— the tall man was golng to do solme~ ~ ebing, He stood with bis back to ? ey, and gave orders, “Phere'll be something doing now, Mies Page,” said the new interne, “What are they going to do? * “Going after the bullet. Do you ‘ w who's going to do it?” ‘His voice echoed the subdued ex~ citement of the room—excitement ‘ “amd new hope, “Did you ever hear of Edwardes, the t Faurkoow Edwardes operation, ’ ¢ u know, Well, he's here, It sounds ike a miracle, They found him sit- r alee” a bench in the hall down- 7 " ey raised her head, but shoe . ‘gould not eo the miraculously found avMawardes. phe could #ee the famil- ‘a dar faces of the staff, and that other on the pillow, and--she gave a Sihtie cry. There was K.! How like to bo the be wherever any “ in troubl wie her eyes had called him, he ked up and saw h He came to- her at once, ‘The staff stood to let him pass, and gazed after . atood ax av'Bheve's t* i Deside Sidney and looked Just at first it Heemed he found nothing to say. Then: ust a chance Sidney dear, count too much on it” have got to count on It, rt » 1 shall dic.” If a shadow passed over his face, no saw it, (N not ask you to go back to your . If you will wait somewhere near, I'll see that you have immediate mL am going to the operating room.” fot to the operating room, Bome- + +44 n eww . ota Ht ee controlled her hys- teria, But she resented it, She was not herself, of course, what with “ptrain and weariness, *T shall ask Dr, Edwardes.” He was puzzled for a moment. en he understood, After all, it was well, Whether she knew him as Moyne or as Fdwardes mattered owery little after all. yr, Edwardes says you are tostay way from the operation, but to re- in near, He—promises to call you ifthings go wron, Bhe had to be content with that, Nothing about that night was real to Bldney. She sat in the araesthet- teing room, and after a time sho knew she was not alone, She realized mY that Carlotta was there too, pac- ws of up and down the little room, Bo you thought he was going to sald Carlotta, ‘Well, you eee he isn't. Bidney tried to answer and failed, “If you had enough character, I'd think you did it, How do T know you didn't follow us, and shoot him As he Inft the room?" Sidney's numbed mind grasped the tial fact here, and held on to it, le had been out with Carlotta, «olin the movement to and from the ' qpereting room the door stood open @ moment, A tall figure—-how much it looked like K.!-—straightened ‘and held out something in its hand, “The bullet!" said Carlotta in a whisper. In the gray dawn the staff came * put through the closed door and took {their hushed way toward the elevator, hey were talking among thomselvos, Bidnoy, straining her ears, gathered tt thay had seen # miracle, and moe © thet the wonder © smnet bine im bie bard Wee aching and confuned K. carried her to the ot on furee he hed susnmeond busted out fer aroma'lc oemmeonia, Midney. iyieg among ber pillows, looked wp at Now he better, There's « chance, “A whihe ear” mined a al waiting 1 kept ae Kt was you Who & vill he really @et melt” * promising * uid the to thank Dr, Ba bhomething had happened to K. that savored of the ineelt hy was with it re but A Wileon got well, he'd na ures om tn with im, wh Mmak- per ig 4A rung, and Bidney looking up at him mutinously “Mine Pago te not to wo on dut to-day, Bhe te to stay tn bed unt + orders.” on in cleared awhy euddenty, t K. who he ormed the miracle operation had dared and perha: with won wteady ey 4 * fingers! Then, weemed to see ahead am well as into the past she turned her face Into her pillow and cried, Hor world had fallen indeed, Mer lover wae not true, and might be dying; her friend would #o away to his own world, which wae not the Mtreet, K, lett her at and went to Heventeen, where Dr, By the DOE n, Dr, Hd ati wat CHAPTER XXVI. AX had rallied well, and M thingn looked bright for him, but K, was anxious to find Joe; so he telephonod the kan office and got @ day off, To nave Joe, then, was K.'s first care, At first it seomed an if the boy had frustrated them, He had not been home all night. K. rented a car at a local warage und drove himself out into the coun. try, He stopped at the roadhouse and arked 1 [Waere's Bchwitter “At the barn with the missu a boy back there.” bai keepers know men: that's of the job. After his aurvey i kent behind the bar and got the revolver from under an overturned pail, K, thrust it into his pock: wwe he aaid quietly, te ‘where is ‘In my room—top of the house,” K, followed Bill up the stairs, Joe was sitting in the corner fur- thest from the window, When the door swung open he looked up. He showed no Interest on recing ri who had to stoop to enter the low r “Helly, Joe.” ead “killed him!" “Oh, no, you don't, You're glad you dn't, and so am I." “It's easier than it sounds.” K, sat down on the bed. “If T only had some money!" he sald, “But never mind about that, Joe; I'll get some.” Loud calls from below took Bill out of the room. As he closed the door behind him, K.'s voice took on a new ton “Joo, why did you do it?” “You know, “You aw him with somebody at the Wate Springs, and followed them?” “Do you know who was with him?" “Yes, and s0 do you. Don't go into that. I did it, and I'll etand by it.” “Has it occurred to you that you made a mistake?” “Go and tell that to somebody who'll believe you!" he sneered, ‘They came here and took a room. T met him coming out of it, I'd do it again if 1 had a chance, and do it better,” “It was not Sidney.” “Aw, chuck it!" “I's a fact. I got here not two minutes you left, The girl was atill the It was somo one else, Sid ney was not out of the hospital last night, She attended @ lecture, and then an operation,” Joo listened, 1t was vndoubtedly a relief to him to know that it had not been Sidney; but If K, expected any remorse, he did not get it, “If he ts that sort, he deserves what he got,” sald the boy grimly. ‘And K. had no reply. “T intended to write a confession and then shoot myself,” he told K. “But the barkeeper got my gun out of my pocket. And"~—-- “Does she know After a p who did it? “sidney? No." “Then, if he gets better, she'll marry him anyhow.” “Possibly, That's not up to ua, Joe. The thing we've got to do is t hush the thing up, and get you away, I'd go to Cuba, but I haven't the money.” K. rose, "I think Tecan get it." Schwitter had taken in five hundred dollars the previous day “Ita better to get him away, of course, It's good business, [ have tried to have an orderly place, If they arrest him here” It was arranged that K, should ge back to town, returning late that night to pick up Joe at a lonely point on tho road, and to drive him to @ railroad station K. was called back by a message from Sohwitter, He took Mra. Mo- Kee with him “Come in, Mr. K," she sald. “The wife's dead, poor thing, They're go- ing to be married right away.” Tho clergyman was coming along the path With Sehwitter at his heels, K. entered the barn, At the door to Tillle's room he uncovered his head, The child was asleep at her breast, CHAPTER XXVII, K until 11 o'clock. The in- jured man'a vitality was standing him in good stead, He had of that day with Wilson, He was not to go for Joe The Evening | Yack: SPENT all of the evening * ee tone did what neither the Head nor the Hxecutive Committee had done that hook her control, “wi t matter to you? You asked Cor Sidney and she was at his bedaide, K. found @idney in the room, not sitting, but standing by the window. The sick man was dosing, She turned slowly and met his eyes, It seemed to K, that she looked at him as if she had never really seen him before, and he waa right, “We can't talk here, I want to talk to you, K." He led the way into the corridor, It was very dim. “I have been thinking until I am almost crasy, K. And now I know how it ‘happened, It was Joe.” “The pringipal thing is, not how it happened, but that he ts going to get well, Sidney.” She stood looking down, twisting her ring around her fin, Cuba.” “I'm damned if I understand you. You've done @ marvellous thing, | ie bere and Haten to the staff sing sng your praises until I'm aick of your name! And now, because a boy who wouldn't have lived anyhow" —— “That's not it," K. put in hastily, “1 know all that, I guess I could dG it and get away with it as well as the » All that deters me— sver told you, have I, why I © up before?” “T've heard the goss! that's all.” ou recognized ime that At hat does I've known you a long thin never knew anything very wood, “L'il tell you where I live, and"—— “L know where you liv “Will you come to see me there? We may be able to think of some- thing.” “What is there to think of? This story will follow me wherever I gol I've tried twice for a diploma and failed, What's the use?” But tn the end he prevailed on her to promise not to leave the city until she had seen him again, It was not until she had gone, @ stratght figure with haunted eyes, that he reflected whimsically that once agein he had defeated his own plans for fight. Sidney brought her letter to Joe “When night on the balcony, I told you I'd Jost my faith in myself, and you suid the whole affair had been «one over at the State Society. As a mat- ter of fact, the Society knew of only two cases, There had been three,” “Even at that—" “You know what I always felt about the profession, Max, © went back to K. She was flushed with tne into that more than once in Hor, “Is Joo in any danger? effort and with @ new excitement Either one's best or nothing, It wan “We are going to got him away to. . “This ta” the letter, K, and—I alinost three years ago that things haven't been able to say what You'll let him knov 1 feel, and how I began to go wrong. cane? I lost a dix e, Lt know, All this doesn’t influcace ward aita moment, We had a system in tho operating room as perfect as i could devise it, 1 never finished night. He wants to go to Cuba, He'll got off safely, I think.” “We are going to got him away! You are, you mean. You shoulder all our troubles, K., aa If they were your ow "I He was genuinely eurprised, “Oh, I seo, You mean—but my part in getting Joe off 4s practically noth- ing. As @ matter of fact, Sohwittor has put up the money. My total oup- {tal in tho world, after paying the taxicab to-day, is seven dollars.” “The taxicab?” “By Jove, I was forgetting! Bost news you ever heard of! Tillie m ried and has a y—all in twenty- four houra! Boy—they named it Le Moyne." He watched her go down the corri- wanted, exactly, won't you, how blame myself?" K. promised gravely. At @ o'clock that morning K, got back from seeing Joe off, The trip had been without accident, When reached home Christine came out of her room. “Oh, K.!" she cried, away. Tuke me away! it any poner She held her arma out to him, and because he was very tired and lonely and because more than anything in the world just then he needy drew her to alm » his cheek to her an operation without having my first assistant verify the clip and sponge count, But that first case died be- “take me nm left in the T can't stand things go; you can't always avo them, and one goes by the count, af sonable caution, Then I almoat | another case In the same way—a free © "As well as 2 could tell, the pre- cautions had not been relaxed. | was doing from four to six cases a day, After the second one L almost went crazy, L made up my mind, tf there was ever another, I'd give up and Bo away.” “Poor girl!" he said. “Poor Chris- tine! Surely there must be some happiness for us somewhere.” jor. But the next moment he let her go Some one entered the room, It was &nd stepped back. Carlotta, “rm sorry.” Characteriaticall She waa not in uniform, She wore took the blame, “I shouldn't a dark skirt and white waist and her done that-—— You know how It Is high heels tapped as she croased the with m room, She came directly to him, “Will it always be Sidney’ “Ho is better, ian't he?” “I'm afraid it will always be Sid He is rajlying, Of course it will ney.” be a day or two before we are quite sure.” She stood looking down at Wilnon's quiet figure. was another?” 4 he “Not for several months, When ave the last case died, a free case again, I performed my own autopsy, I al- lowed only my first assistant In the room, He was almost as frenaled as 1 was, It was the same thing again, When 1 told him I was going away, he offered to take the blame himself, to say he had closed the incision, He tried to make me think he waa re- sponsible, 1 knew—better.” CHAPTER XXVIII. “I guess you know I've been crazy OCHNNY ROSENTEE a ; 5 “Ivy incredible, about him," she sald quietly, “Well, dead, All of K's skill had spxuetiy; but it's true, The lant that's all over, He never really cared not sufficed to save him, patient was @ laborer, Hoe lett for me, I played his game and I— ‘The operation had been a family. I've went them money from lost. I've been expelled from the i. , _ time to time, used to ait and think school.” marvol, but the boy's long grout the children he left, and what @apped strength failed at the last, The old doubts came back And now came @ question that de- manded immediate answer, Wilson would be vut of commission for seve- and keep on working, with that rat months, probably, He waa gain- chance, er—quit, T quit.” ing, but slowly, And he wanted K. Arsene eae And: senen to take over his work, taken every precaution we “Why not?” he demanded, halt Ir- ritably, ‘The secret is out, Every- body knows who you are, You're not thinking about going back to that ridiculous gas office, are you?” TAKE THE EVENING WORLD WITH YOU ON YOUR VACATION So that you will not miss any of the weekly novels and may continue to enjoy the daily magazine, comic and other special features, Include them in your summer reading. Order the Evening World Mailed to Your Summer Address re ew eee would become of them. The tronic part of it was that, for all that had happened, | was buster all the time, Men were sending me cases from all over the country. It was either stay Quite suddenly she dropped on her kne beside the bed and put her cheek close to the sleeping man’ hand, When after a moment she rose she was controlled again, calm, very w ill you tell him, Dr. Edwardes, when he ts conscious, that I came ia and said good-by? ‘I will, of course, Do you want to leave any other message?” Bhe hesitated, as if the thought tempted her, Then she shrugged heg shoulders, “Wht would be the use? He doesn't want any message from me. She turned toward the door, K. could not let her go like that, face frightened him. It was too calm, too controlled, He followed her ‘oss the room, ‘What are your plans?" “T haven't any, I'm about through with my training, but I've lost my diploma. “LI don't ike to see you going away like ¢his.” She avoided hie eyes, but his kindly knew." “That's the worst, ts it? Max Wil- son demanded “That's enough." “It's extromely significant. You had an enemy somewhere—on your staff, But Her . ae “1 bed some thought of going to pi eaten World Daily Magazine. Saturday. July 1. 1916 This profession of ours is but you know ita jealor t his shoulders owd, and the pack is He laughed a little, “Mixed figure, but you know what I mean.” K, shook his head, “You're going to do tt, of course.” “Take up your work? He atirred restiessly. To stay on, to be near Sidney, perhaps to stand by as Wilson's best man when she was married—Iit turned him cold, he did not give a decided negat “Give me anothor day on it,” said at last, Morning and evening, Sidney went to Max's room, ee are you going to marry me “Can't we talk things over when you are stronger “Ww. things? What mean He had forced her hands, Sho had meant to walt; but, with bis keen eyes on her, she could not dissemble., ‘1 am golng to make you very un- mapey for @ little while.” “I've had a@ lot of time to think, If really wanted me, Max’ “My God, of course I want you!” “Lt lan't that 1 am angry, 1 am not Hut 1. he do you even jealous, I was at first, It ian't that. It's hard to make fd under- stand, 1 think you care for me” “Hut, good Heavens, Sidney, you do cure for me, @on't you?” “I'm afraid I dou't, enoug! I'ta # Wretched about it. I thought LT cared, To me you were the best and greatest man that ever lived, [— when I said my prayers, l——- But that doewn't matter, You were @ @ort of god to me, When the Lamb— that’s one of the internes, you know-~ cknamed you the ‘Lite Tin God, I angry. You could never be any~ thing little to me, or dg anything that wasn't big. Do you see?" He groaned under his breath, “No, Lavo that now, Hut that's the way | cared, Now I know that I didn’t care for you, really, at all, I built up an idol and worshipped it, It isn't that I think you are wicked, Ite just that I_never loved the real you, be- cause I never knew you.” Under the windew rang the sharp wong of 4 city patrol wagon, An op- erating-room ¢ probably, Sidney If it was a case ator would Ko up to the operating room, With a renewed sense of loss, Max @aw that abready she had put him out of her mind, Bhe took a step toward the door, hesitated, caine back, and put @ light hand on his shoulder, “I'm sorry, dear Max.” Bhe had Kissed him lightly on the cheek before he Knew what she in- tended to do. When the door closed behind her he saw that she had lett ner ring on the arm of his chatr, saw Carlotta that evening for the last time, She wae ¢ white, looked ten years older than her Max; not 1 came, you soe, Dr, Edwardes,” “We'll just try to forget aboute- about Schwitter’s and all the rest,” he sald, “and if I go back I'll take you n the operating room.” You sent me away once!” “Well, L can ask you to come back, can't I?" He amiled at her encourag- ingly. “Are you sure you understand about Max Wilson and myself?” “T understand.” “Don't you think you are taking a risk?” SERRR ero | Love plays « vital part in mistakes now wan houses, about thie people com back, No depth te All they need te the wil Hhe hod b confession, Hut the too alluring. It van alwa + low oid . she Bhe would mo back. why damn hers she would |fur him. She would make It him in other ways, Hut she could mot tell him and lowe everything, CHAPTER XXIX. ATH Meptember had eoma with the Mireet, after tte summer indo! taking up the burden of the year, At #99 and at 1 the school bell called the ebiidren Christine called to K, from hor it. tle baleonyt “L thought T heard your step out+ wide, Have you time to come out?” K. went through the parlor and stood In the long windo: “sidney will be here thie after noon.” “ood,” mittal, “Has it purred to you, K, that Sidney is not very happy?” He atood in front of her, “Bhe's had a great anxiety.” “Bhe has no anxlety now, doing well, Then what ta it?” im not quite sure, but T think I know, She's faith in Max, Max ian’t what she thought he was, and I doubt whether she'll marry him,” Christine might be right, but that did not alter things for him, Hidney came home at half-past %, When she learned that K. was up- stairs, oddly enough, she did not go up at once, Chriatine, looking in from her bal- co! saw her there, and, eine nomething tn her faco that she had never suspected, put her hand to her throat, idney!"* “Oh—hello Chris.” “Won't you come and ait with me?” “I haven't much thne—that is, I want to speak to K." “You can see him when he como down,” His tone was non-com- Sidney came slowly through the ! parlor door, It occurred to her, all at onco, that Christine anuat seo @ lot of K., expecially now, “How is Max?” “Hull better,” “Dr, Ed says Max wants you to give up your treining and marry him now." not going to marry him at all, Upstaire K.'s door slammed, Kidney slid from the railing, “Thore ho le now.” Perhaps, in all her frivolous, sélfish lfe, Christine had never had a bigger moment than the one that followed, She could have said nothing, and in the queer way that life goes K. might have gone away from tho Street as empty of heart as he had come to It. “Bo very good to him, Sidney,” shi sald unsteadily, “He cares @o much. K. was being very dense, For so long had he considered Bidney as un- attainable that now his masculine mind, a little weary with much wretchedness, refused to move from its old attitu “It was glamour, that was all, K. gaid Sidney bravely, But perhaps,” said K. “it's just because of that miserable incident with Carlotta, ‘That wasn't the right thing, of course, but Max has told me the story, It was really quite inno- cent, Bhe fainted in the yard and”-— Sidney was exasperated, “Do you want me to marry him, K. K. looked atraight ahead “T want you to be happy, dear.” They wore on the terrace of the K. had ordered din about geting the dishea they both liked, Hut they were not eating, “It ig hard for me t realize that you--that you lived # life of your own, busy life, doing useful things, be ‘ore you came to us, 1 wish you would tell me something about your- self.” He did his best. He told her of the old family house, built by one of his forebears who had b a king's man until Washington hat put the case for the colonios, and who had given himself and his oldest gon then to the cause that he made bis own, He told of old servants who had wept when He decided to close the house and gu away Suddenly Sidney felt very t ‘Would you mind very much asked you to take me back?” Ho did mind. Ho had a depressed feeling that tho evening had failed, Aud his depression grew as ho brouga the car around. “Do you really want to go home, Sidney, or were you tired of sitting the In that case we could drive @round for an hour or two. Ill not talk if you'd like to be quiet." “I'd Like to ride, if you don't mind.” it K. turned the automobile toward the country rouds, “Yaa “Was there anybody you cared about--any girl--when | you left home “TL was not in love with anyone, If that’s what you mean,” K. was suddenly aware that Sidney was crying sat with her head turned away, using her handkerchief stealthily, He drew the car up be- side the road, and in a masterful fashion turned her shoulders about until she faced him. “Now tell me about it," he said. “It's just silliness, I'm--I'm a little bit lonely." “Lonel; There Is aiweys something inectmeting about tery of o man whe “starts on « tembes bbe wap iente a tertsene Such » otury be tote te Black Gold. By FREDERICK BR. BECHDOLT WEXT WEEK'S COMPLETE NOVEL IM THE EVENING WORLD A HOTLY-CONTESTED OIL FIGHT oo ecw wees coc ccc cor orerecereseeone thls inepiring romance at ‘Aunt Marries i joe une and every AvHt Harriet Amd wit ever comin TH come back, thie! coarse Howe | 1 promne te Come beck ween o aduale, aad you howers teat 2 ak,” saga Bidowy, that” a army nuree You wort know, &. You! be agit | hope you wont ¢ with your old ifeads. Towll ve gotten the Mtrect and all of we Do you reall Lad “Girls whe d have lovely clothes, and . won't Know 4 T bandage from @ figure elmut!* There will never be anybody ta the World Like you to me, dear,” Hin volce waa huaky. vat to comfort "You are saying ¢ me. “To comfort you! I-who have — Wanted you so long that it hurte think about itl dover. ai a night 1 came up o witting there on the step: my dear my dear, if you only @ title!" o he was afraid that and and take her which would be td! wince, Of Course, whe did not Wim that way aripped tne ategpe : ing wheel, ot fay Him a curious ap. pearance of ma athetic appeal ww rs wind Wa 3a sig 7 “L have bi trying to make way that all net in love you #o mu ‘id take me in your arma?” Take her in bis arma! crushed her, He held ‘ and muttered incoherence . «asped. it w aa if he mi ¥; up for long arrears of hopel es) 9} neaness. He held her off a bit to look at her, as if he wanted her eyes to Sines er I There was no lack of jon in her eves; they showed heaven and a new you alwaya, K.." sho "L Just didn't realize | now, when you look back, don't you neo it wast” He looked back over the monthe when she had seemed a» unattains nd cid pet abi the stars, he pee tt. He huok hi E “1 never had even @ hope.” “Not when I came to you with everything? I brought you oll my troubles, and you always helped.” Her eyes filled, She bent dewn and Kissed one of hie hands, He was #0 happy that the foolish litte caress made his heart hammer Jn his ears. “1 think, K., this is how one can always tell when itt is the right i) and will be the right one forever ¢ ever. It is the person—ane ques to rouble," only | =, had no words for that, Httle, caressing touches of hor e her hand. # “" 1 love you all my life.” she 5 ald shakil ; His arins tightened about her, { The little house was dark when : they got back to it. ‘ at The car drew up at the little house and Sidney got out. ‘Then {t drove =~ away, for munt: take it to warage and waik back, Vee Sidney wat on the doorstep and waited : 4 : pack thirteen, Katie had heard the car, and now she came heavily along the hall. “A woman left this for Mr. K.." she 4 said, “It you think It's a boy letter, you'd better keep it until bought his,new suit toemorrow: But it was not a begging lettez. K. read it in the hall, with Sidn shining eyes on him, It began al ruptly: "I'm going to Africa with one of my cousins. She is a medical minsq jonary, Perhaps I can work tinge * out there, It is a bad station on . ‘West Coast. Iam not going because I f any call to the work, but bet » 1 do not know what else to do. You were kind to me the other day, [ believe, if | had told you then, you would still have been kind, To 4 tried to tell you, but I was ao terribly afraid, “If T caused death, I didnot mean to. You will think that no excuse, but . it is true, In the hospital oar " changed the bottles on Miss Page's medicine tray, I did not ‘e much || what happened, But it was differemt with you. 3 ‘You dismissed me, you remember, ¥ I had been careless about a sponge count, I made up my mind to get back at you. It seemed hopelese— You were so secure. For two or three days I tried to think of some way to. hurt you, I almost gave up, Them I found the way. % “You remember the packets of gauze sponges we made and used In the operating room? There were twelve to each package, When we counted them as we got them out, we counted by packages, On the night F before I lett, L went to the operating ded one sponge every and there, Out of every dogen perhaps, I fixed one that had The next day I went awaye 1 was terrified, What tt somebody died? I had meant to give you trouble, so you would haye to do certain cases a second time, TI swear that was all, I was so frightened that I went down sick over it. When I got better, | hevrd you had lost-a ; any and the cause was being whis ed about, [almost died of terrol “] tried to get back Into the hos pital one night. I went up the fire- escape, but the windows were locked. Then I left the city, 1 couldn't stan it. I was afraid to read a newspaper, “1 am not going to sign this letter. You know who it is from. And I am not going to ask your forgiveness, or anything ‘of that sort, I don’t expect it, But one thing hurt me more . thing e! the other night. You said you'd lost your faith in yourself, ‘This is to tell you that you need not, And you said something else—that any one can ‘come back.’ I wonder! K, stood in the hall of tho little house with the le er in his hand, Just beyond on the uorstep was Sid- ney, waiting for him, “Are you coming, K ?" “Coming,” he said, And, when he was beside her he stooped bumble and kissed the hem of her soft dress, > @he End.)