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d THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1922. y ——s he Tale Of TWO ANE SASS. bY ae On A Fairy “isiand. LLLUSTRATED BYyVv. B. JOHNSTONE, |i! + MEGS = dinner,” She looked up at him, « now, easy, We were tipped off day letter up to Bost make friends with the local Shy “No,” said Sargent, gravely “At least," he reminded her, “you've even in the dim light he could before yesterday, Descriptions fit “why wouldn't one of the ho- leks." that. But I'd have given you a choice, had an unusual ex ” ij experience.’ j J m mate her distress, “It had all my don't they? ort of funny, what you tels trust us?"* He had expected to do the business As it {s, I couldn't even give myself a WHO'S WHO IN THE STORY money and my ticket in it. And it's could almost call a coincidence--both Does it xound likely? You have alone, but he was mintaken, Miss choice, My job wan to take care of 12 the darkness, her smile was MISS DENNISON, who is a student at Waban College be- sone!”’ of you comin’ in here together, claim- to admit that our story isn't any toe Dennison, fascinated by novelty, re- you rather wistful. “Yes, I'll always say . = ’ - : “Don't begin to worry yet. We'll in’ you been robbed, Pretty silek plans! not when the o side of fused to wait on a street corner, They = “Oh! Purely a matter of duty, 8 *© © © I'm glad we weren't cause her uncle wanted her to be—not because she liked it. find it. One of the stewards has prob- alibi, Ls'pose you figured because the jt had twen told first. 1 don't even went into the shop together, and she then?" Her tone was tantalising, * © © suspected agatn, — aren't A ably picked it up, Come on and we'll cable was broke Bermuda wouldn't think we want to stay in Hamilton, stood at Sargent’s elbow while he de- “A matter of pleasure to myself, you? DOCTOR SARGENT of the English department at Wa- fenatout it." have heard about you."" Wall have tana: some tttie owt, oF Mal abel te 1 4 hundred dollars, The broker but when it also happened to be a ‘i ve m re! ockes D| an- a _ 53 " ven’ 2 * a Yr c i rn Sargent suddenly put out his hand 7 7 a S The stewards, however, pleaded Sargent was shocked out of his an- the way place where they haven't offered twenty; they compromised at duty—1 wasn’t afraid you'd misjudge ban, who took a degree because an uncle of his had ambitions fenoradcs; Sigs’ Danninot Wael till, “dee Neaeh ihr Ree Oh, have Lire fee EERE CHE ot ree waa coverdd hen dre iheaed the that his nephew should head a department in the college he ‘wit you excuse me if I go back to "Cable? You say _it's—broken?" you any money at all? “Why,” she said, “Ef could have all, T was thinking of you." quick intake of her breath, my stateroom? I know It's not there, He turned back to Miss Dennison “Yes, a two-dollar bill, 1 found tt done better myself! Men are so im There was a prolonged hiatus. “I “It's been so c endowed WhO Hal been’ sitting qaotionlons : ar ie r red hiatus It's been so pleasant to see this . but!’ . wat sicieuice i otionless, in my vanity case practical! And thirty-six dollars-- didn’t mean to tease you," she said jittle corner of the world I wondered = - ae eee oi ee “You'd better look, anyway. We'll “Come on! We'll see the Captain “That's tine, Six dollars altogether, y, we'll owe rtysfive o! ho ‘contrite ry a Paes g naa io WOES) THE PURSER, both matter of fact and suspicious, who Cee eee ee teat wigs tive Mow Bay MeeR here, Bere he i rae ke Gat As she Tey trent Gwe Chintyeeive OF 1G BE IND Toontritely, NEUE (yeu, do: {6868 NO) ipwe couldn't wo and Ob Chl SOURIEF : 5 . find it. And if we don’t, why, ze y rig If there pawn shop anywhere end of the week easily. Well, I won't do it any more. \¢ together.” He bent forward. “I've knew when it was his job to obey a warning. plenty of money RH eme OEE Ca elaath serviced tieralti tenet (Can_taise something on mY «tt o¢curred to me," he sald hum Where'll) we go) for the deper told you-omaybe the fenbon T'V6 > . 1 . ees . cable your uncle - ; * watch bly, “that if we changed from the first pieni z : THE CAPTAIN, devoid of imagination, but good enough ier expression showed no, relief. than a minute that he was a ian Of “ yfor faco lighted. “Why, of course! American to the European plan, Just Now, If ever there risen a wave of Understood you gang Haktey pone, “You don’ ow . Didn't T tell no imagination © they traveling RGAC GL WAGON. HRA LOTS ‘ i 7 a 00 7 . i r 2 acknowledge that he might be wrong. SEO CUR CHO NUN ers HAUG ‘ESBAEHE RT rete CHOW LALEER reomne ee teh and some silver paid for our rooms and breakfasts, Popular sentiment against romance, | have a grandfather with © lot of ou I'm running away? He'd ni together? W y things#—brushes and a mir M She and then—Naturally, we want to see Bermuda will surely have to be put Ae : yome bape ‘ thar pone money; he was a trustee of Waban: kL _ _ forgive me, never, Ae a bao tagger te TARTS edchiniens paused; and presently she laughed in Permuda, and if we went on walking on a special blacklist. And here were jie wanted me to be a Ph. D. and a de. — ought to have escorts, even sig : anew key. “I almost hope we don’t trips and plenicked, instead of eating two young people, a man of twenty- partment head. * ¢ ® Well, he “But you're really across the street cept what they claimed to have car- “If you don't find it in your room, ried on their persons? He picked up we'll see the purser, No, please—I the newspaper and read aloud the wonder; for the fog had not aren't you? And fond of Waban it- don't mean that for a Joke. He's the two descriptions, He repeated that T first sight the promenade She hesitatec deck was deserted, and small fond of what you're doing at Waban, get too much for them, don’t you? in those stuffy dining rooms, we'd nine and a girl of twenty-three, P bought me. Bought my youth and my It won't be half such an adventure 1€ gave money and have a better time,” thrown together in @ romantic spot ambition and my longing to go off on ‘t frightfully poor!" She halted, “Now, that's a practi- nd under clreumstances which had’ a hunting run, over the world; and we a ee . ' 1 omething elxe Made them friends, partners, almost they never came back to me—until i a = = Si o has charge of the stew- he had been warned the day before HEN sho went below she cal td And there's something else 5 yet lifted and the sea was sel enter who has charge c is. ea bse MATS GINS Sls, HS SEE DGS we ie iti tbo: | WHOA UNGRUE Gu for DOLGW They WAENARGURIRLANORT “Tie Raw. CBOE Soe BAR GHIRE Oca BIGe ata Mine Denhleon had Bean reported had almost forgotten to _ roe those horrid people they did sus- Man had begun with sympathy and thing I lost, The price of my degree upset by the memory of yesterday's “Well, I'm not.” “7 might have known you wouldn't to him the instant they came aboard resent the purser and the pect us for, if we went on walking the girl had given him back grati- can pay for yours, too"— He mots- southeaster. The ship was cutting ‘‘You don’t like Waban?" joke about it. Would you mind t- A college professor of English? And Captain and Sargent took trips and picnics?’ ay Next, they had shared a com- tened Pepe Bias iol Cag obliquely into the Gulf Stream, and ‘‘Hate it,’’ she said, ‘Ever since ing for me? I am worried.” es pha Cut! - common libel, Now, Haver a i Ln Wik ~yadde % the: fixentdaye £ e only be- He waited nervously, until she ap- penniless wayfarers, they were to. 4 lifetin y a 3 the Gulf Stream, with a gale behind th t day. came nly peared, embiyehanded gether on a@ fairy island, and in their You want to go and live it it, was no respector of landsmen, And Cause {t we “t's not there, I knew {t wasn't! daily budget and in the distribution | At the end of the lanaaet mets set Y of 4 _ Ry e ve e yet to Sargent, who thought himself &ain I made. TI don’t pretend to be «Now don't take it too hard, Miss 2 duties—the man to carry the bur- i Ae a cea Ain yen alone on deck, there was a keen ex- anything but a hypocrite.” Dennison. Well ned ae ena cen Feet Mea AL Nd bch WN Co ord neal rh er you offer met’ “That's rather hard to believe. help you out for the present here was a marked suggestion of + +: | st Hen Hilaration in the weather, Life unde § ha » "Ott Ian't that,’ she sald. "If ve domesticity. And this is fatal, What else ut there to give x= such conditions was almost « personal Pidn't you want to come to college jo. it, 111 have to draw on my unc! Sargent had never uttered a word, CePt my—love ; triumph; and he gloried jn it: he ” again. And he'll ask why, and UI never made a sign to show that he Her band was trembling under his cold and slaty-gray, and still rey ncwito wae whitey Birk anclcieslic: sa sort of * © * bar- ‘ ‘ regs , wh. “But . . if you give that a to shout aloud, @ ne She glanced at him, appraised him, have to tell him the truth. I'd have regarded himself in any relation to i wanted to shout aloud, exulMntly, at ana’ geaiered’ reonhdence “No, 1 told him anyway; but when it has to her execept that of a comrade and pro- ‘+ - 1 don't care where L live . oe the whiplash of the spray across his i ‘ t tector; but she was a woman—she “8 long as it's where—you are. Gis: wanted to travel, Go everywhere and knew. She had hidden her face, but wher everything, and—have adventures Then out of the uncertain fog came Yet, when she dared to dream about Leet Adalat Shr lead re A a e i 4 y hadn't heard before, ashe had no powc Se eee ahe was troubled and un: +4 remiat him, and no inclination. ronneg in Bermuda, “when he met her in the morning, hi but what, afterward? Could Sargent, told Her that hie dratt had come; an with all his academic principtes, feel Maniike, he Wantéd (0 Galebeala wit? Colhin't. past her. caller examine, &Uncheon at a grand hotel. Woman tions? What. would ho think af hey Uk@: she insisted upon revisiting th: 4 i first picnic ground where they hac ten yonrs from now—and, onthe other begun to practise economy and tc hand, what would she think of him? jovm each other, Tn ten yeurs, she would have lost none The day was warh, and Sarge: of her own adventurous spirit: but pefore he hurried off for firewood, hac would Sargent have forgotten the thrown his coat on the rocks, Mis: mood which wis governing him now? Dennison watched him down th Wouldn't It be troned flat in another beach, waved to him, blew a kiss @ decade—or lens? She shut her eyes to him, sighed from the bottom of @ the future, and told herself to squeeze happy heart, and turned to make @ every drop of happiness out of the live table. ing present. It was safer, the figu and experiences, Only my uncle wanted me to have a college degree, evens Dee vo T had to give in and make a bar- him he saw that she was young and pain, If I grad d, T could have a that her eyes reflected the same spirit two-year trip around the world." He funcied that her voice broke slightly Y “it .didn't * * * Tecould go home. caught the spirit of adventure, and acts in Napoleon, Mo. ¢ © © It’ ling far superior to being buried alive.’ those who were below, ringing des- The wind was hustling them aft, but perately for stewards she relaxed her hold, and paused in the companionway. ‘Is there such a As they came abreast, her eves, thing asa conscientious hypocrite? It which were just visible over the heavy there is, ['ve been one. I've tried not collar, changed expression, She t let my uncle know how I've loathed looked as if she expected him to speak Waban; he thinks I like it, He doesn't : know I've just been trying to eara my toher. He didn't speak; he attempted (Wo youre abroad, Nobody elec wore to walk past her slowly and dignified- [ye worked—oh, how I've worked, ly, bus a sudden lurch of the steamer And it's no use, T haven't one chance destroyed his balance, and in the next in fifty, That's why I'm going to Bermuda tor Easter vacation. — 1 e d that moment ‘he found that thought I'd better see Bermuda, any- ing to her, instead way." He had released her, and he v “Rut my dear girl’’— about to say something courteous and ‘tHe keeps his bargain, too. So do appropriate when the slope of the deck I. Only when I've never been any- is /gaddeniy rever where, and when I've worked four selves they solid years, T can't help being a litle —depressed, can 12" other, struggled for a footing, and “What makes you so sure there slid down to the rail. The girl was tsn't a chance?" laughing merrily and a trifle help- “Because now it all depends on one course; and I'm hopeless in that,"* tony “What course is it? He read the Sargent disenga nswer in her eyes, and he caught her of womun, wrapped in a and as she neared which was in himself. She, too, had she, too, was Then, as her eyes fell upon his coat : she paused and stood stock-still. In- WEEK passed, and there was crequious, bewildered, she went down no draft from Boston, Tiey on her knees to pick up the leathe: pald their bills (and pawned wallet which had fallen from an Inner thelr suitcases) and went on Pocket. It was plump with cards and @ ration allowance; Mins Denningn PAPQrs and yellow bank bille; it war Faited “henarmentent ze x vndaa, certainty the wallet which he had ont a erehiefs to her window tr THEN , on the boat—and how had he got it ‘0 SAVE SELVES THEY cinas, and Sargent affected a che ap- again, and why hadn't he told he STRUGGLED FOR A FOOTING ¢r brand of cigarettes. They hired about it? 1, bieycles to ride to Pink Beach, whore . She sat back, gasping, She remem AND SLID DOWN TO THE RAIL. ee WieTe bered now, how taciturn he had beer whon he returned from his Interview with the ship's captain. He ad sim His eyes softened. ‘That bothers for the extravagance they dined ror ply said, “I'm glad you didn’t go with you, doesn't it?" half a crown at a native cottaye, Me." And, of course, she hal taken “Well, why wouldn't It? But 1 We They wanted to sall the length of cue this to mean that the interview would was cling- ‘o save them- lutched wildly at each the coral sand is rose colored uncer the blue waves; and to make up d himself, and 2 like t apy At dant aren't among a lot of people, until our e bee ; wiped the salt from his eyes. “If this just as she was escaping to the com- be like this, all of a sudden, tt isn’t sy Soman I'd feck better’ ‘stand, and eventually they managed "Ave, been wnplensant for her. But : iowa. Ui Corr ean de like Boing to be very joyful... . Where's money comes, I'd feel better wasn’t there another interpretation weather lasts long enough,” he said, aie lonway. pe oan Eidesere nee purser’s office?” She demanded five dollars from him, !t for six shillings; they went to St. Some one had found the wallet, or the “4t'll be almost equivalent to an intro- Ay ake ST eerinien nea hse ae ; cers am and proceeded to drive hard bargains George's as ballast for a fisherman in thieves, and she remembered now are HDG Ra TEBE oo 2 purser received them with ata second-hand store; and when he a two-reef breeze, and came home in What her landlady had sald that first me everything straight from the a rather noticeable failure of perceived how many implements of a i night She was still laughing. beginning. jie state on a rattling dray, They felt 5, Ep : i ; deference, He listened to camp-cooking outfit she had nought (yi ° And Sargent, who for all his sh I knew you didn't remember me, She was giving him brief glances, ma Sainisent St for next to nothing, he shook his head OPHsed to see the famous caves aud nesa had been fond of her even then Doctor Sargent.” half shamfaced, half distrustful, f-om Mas Dennison Bee ne a student? He smiled blandly. At away with him a curiously lasting yith mock solemnit it cost them a heavy toll, but they had feared to risk the failure of ¢ With all due politeness, he would UNer her lashes, “1 was asking for Razed at her and Sargent; he least, their story was origin reminiscence of her smile, and the ‘I'll have to recant,” he sald ae further sacrifices to pay it partnership already formed. He knew Pee ri ahexe Gutatiene cent charity, ‘There's nothing you whistled softly. After a pause, he “Don't forget, young man," he sid. Gingy of her hand “These natives aren't the Shylocks; © could have spent a thousand that while they both were bankrupt _ “ee 2S HBSS lean da about it rummaged in his desk, brought out a “We've got our eyes wide open. I'm ; { of dimeulties We are.” dotlarm apiece,” sald Sargent, “und he could monopolize her—he had aald Instant her collar was wrenched aside ‘Not as your instructor; no, thot® je esoasen und laid it, folded, im r Ecinmitonwatonse nui bath) Giweslin He had been afraid of diMmeut not have seen as much or had as qo, “And to ave colue to am vnan by the wind and he recognized her. ‘isn't. But we aren't at Waban now. aig ' Nd My folded, In front you henave yourselves and you won't at the dock; but he wus vastly re- qPN the evening they sat for a long Much fun seeing it." . ture which otherwise would have Sonie-s aa\wnig ara! of him, 3 ft 1 Nov icer of the ship nad “Yes,"" eed, “but— ; Why, of course. Why, certainly, Come and tell me, as man to man. toa CORDATE ts a get in trouble. But if you don't— jieved when no officer of the ship aad time on a beach overlooking the ioe a eat rap Jo" wilted straightway, he had gone to You're in Waban College; you're in HEY were equally startled ou Bot somethin’ to identify that's all then no officer on a took n dainty Isle of Wight, As she “The Swanteiel! ene 8 pawn shops, he had hunted out third- yourself, of cours Sargent nodded, perplexedly. * “And you—both of you,” said r rate boarding houses, he had guarded six-pences as though they werr one of my senior classe . English 61. when the bugle summoned se had passed AY i ‘ ven, #ent thickly, “Youll be down on your ad 7 : came In her landlady sald to h ; . “And college begins on the twenty apologizing before I'm done tiFough customs; they were out You're—you're Miss Dennison, Well, them to dinner. In the mean of course. But’. kne “I hear they was a couple of Be pee ie draft doesn't come golden sovereigns. There had been I wasn’t prepared to meet any of my time, she had confirmed many stots have it Siease."? with you, the sure, and in Queen Str “ciety pickpockets on the boat, sear pice ee mae lore te con. 2. 4raft from Boston; he hadn't sent students on this trip, and even if I of his enrly impressions; she was Sees When they stumbled out on deck when Sargent's heart almost stopped — Migs G , . i Dennison blanched. “Were ae for one. She had wanted an adven- Sargent glared at him, “TI don't the girl was laughing, half hyster dently ating stowa as racing atte ow “ ure, and he had presery: had been, you were so thoroughly dis- twenty-three, and she had come late quite see the point, and I certaimy cally’ in her throat; but betere sho Voutns: A steward w racine: C16" thus ‘Well, if it doesn’t, Tl be put on SUERi, Gn He id cReaeerves /sptOr shee gulsed by that cloak—Did some of to college because sho hadn't pre. OU °° MY ner. But ig Nd Gone @ dozen paces Sargent » Seine hia aaINe ' Ob, Doctor “yes, and some says they was ar pen aint tate after panier Senpsos aaa Svedite ome ; are for your manner. But if caught the echo of a nob, Sargent! Cap'n wants to see yo rested: Diantt ¥o cle and that means I won't get HE didn't laugh; she didn’t your friends come with you? pa © come at all Ua le aEy We GA a e a sol / you hear about It my degree anyway."’ She gazed out ol - She was the type of person whic! He Don't you worry," he sald stoutly turned erimson, “You if. I'm run ype of peraon which reached for the flat leather wallet “I'll get ua out of this samchow. the Captain” — ” simply can't learn wisdom from the which contained his "No, I'm all by m ning away from everybod: “Why, n-no, Are you sure they over the coral sand, “I don't think srolie; but her syes: were won: were arrested?!" I'd cure such a lot if it didn't come," derfully soft and radiant, The money, and a He saw that her shoulders w Miss Denn put her hand on nis : she said sober! As she smiled up at him he was Printed page; but the whole world score of cards and letters, Suddenly quivering. There was only one thir cove. “Hadn't you better go back “No, but that's what some says. Or *" ys dear, shy, stupid, clever man! ; ‘ f : I wish you didn't feel #0 gloomy 7 : conscious that neither in appearance Wa® ® textbook to her. Such people BS Jaw dropped; he turned to Miss for him to do, and he did it; he pit sn aut he wants? It can't clae they're goin’ to be." AbGUL It: Oh, t kuiow, vou sald you) oe he ee nee Grete utae Gan ati the Coiedl coi. at college ace Gus sald to Jack co: Dennison blankly Min gone, h arm ar end a tr 1 to / any, w to misnt She went gullttly to her room; sho hadn't one chance in fifty of taking q PAtted it aearchingly, gave a little cry ‘ort her, and promised that to-mor- make the or degree, but college ts d : lege senior. For one thing, she was Pllcation; but a dozen years later, at “Just stay right where you are a row he would mend the world for her He w reuaded: but when, ten WiShed that Sargent were nearer to ed a hus all isn't the most im- of triumph, and drew out her own ly older than the average—twen- ©1488 reunions, they stand out head second, I want tocall the Cap'n." I “Please don't think I'm a baby,” minutes later, be rejoined h ex- her, She slept poorly and tn the Hen Nrerpmes IRL JI Tg slightly an the average—twen I'm y see how much you know ty-three or four, at a guess—and for 8nd shoulders above those who got A handed Sargent the newspiper, and she said. “I don't cry once a year pression was hard and set. “I'm glad morning she was feverish unt he “yy 0m mueh vou | ae She heard him coming, and coming oa a { the precious !" astronomy and sociology. Sargent U4 his thumb as a pointer, “Ever Hut I was so mad at those two fut- you didn't xo with me," he said Called for her, “Let's begin explor- ane tat ve gh ling now aoe ie invhaate, When he clambered up: the . She had none of the prectc ogy. Sargent see that?!’ heads!" hortly. Let's not talk about it.!* ing to-day," she urged him, “Please, serpent by mugh: she ee a a : kne hout the decisive e , she was me ° alr of condescension which at Waban Understood her; first, because he Sargent glanced dazedly at the ‘Sargent nodded. “The best thing They avoided the fashionable hotels You don't inind, do you?! Wied ae Be 1 hnig Tibet SERCO >EC rinerea (and some other places) is supposed Wanted to understand her, and, sec- headlines. “*What's this got to do for us to do, 1 suppose, Is to try 19 of Hlumilton and presently discovered — “We'll #tart to-day, by all means, Wht? kn kad veto Be sat In deep etn not; her cheeks were unusually to be a mark of rank and breeding. ond, because she put him in mind of W!th—Oh! Do you suspect those peo- see the funny side of it. I have a small late hoarding house in but 1 don’t want you to be worrted all jie. aria: anacieg to a ely er eit SRG her: iazee ag cumnenal “Ss. Ir away,” he said, What hia own problem had been, a P/¢, te on board?!’ . $4 in silver, and to-morrow morning Vairyland, wt in literature ts still the time. Tesides"—— He flushed a pervous: she blushed, “*® Me depths tn them. Before he came te BoamT running away," heaaid, What bs . “Looks so, don't it?! we're going to land on an island a province with rather Indefinite little. “If it hadn't been for this par “Wel her he stopped to put on his coat, and Already, he had admired her eyes; 02€n years ago. Yes, it'’—, He stopped abruptly; without cable communication.’ toundaries but in Bermuda is legally tewlar kind of mix-up, I shouldn't “py * © © ehink it 9 hen he had done. it he turned hi mow to the qualities which he had Put even If he made no confessions, he had caught the significance of the She looked up quickly. ‘Can't you the 1m Me they engaged a have had the courage to elect stammered. iy SU MRS gy ee ae S aaa geen in them, honesty and humor ana Yet he had given her a new opinion ™&n's intonation. He leaped to his cash a check?" vom for Miss Dennison; after which myself your associate,’ “Do you really need to? ¥, pile, tor ABGIPREOBE AS ORSD AB Nn and h ‘ of him, an opinion which few of ner 2°8t: , “What in the devil do you "My dear girl, can't you imaine Sargent carried the conventions half She had learned that he was very be quite frank, you kne i) tan faced her, she dropped the coffee poi imagination, he added sensitiveness, a . ae k mean? Do we He choked over the kind of publicity this brilliant uo e farther before he found lodg- susceptible to any attack upon his and i nw oan and Kissed him @wnich was evident in the shape of ©M@84Mates would have shared. They it, Do we look to you ike a palt un of ours is going to send out ings for himself hiyness, ‘Do you mean that if we I'm afraid,’ he sald, “you don't She knew that sometime, when he her mouth, and a strength of char- *ovsht him a coldly intellectual ma- Of protodalonnlicr mK Do we?" ahead of us? No; I rather guess we'l “Now, then,” he sald, “you eollect both hadn't Jost our money you'd know much about ft, I'm # fee =i : f h : h . th nine; , . he purser sat back calmly, have to mg . fet & everythin can spare. We'll go to have ignored me ” * at WON SUFeE Of Rere=paerhaps: Rot. antl acter stopping just short of stub. °hne: Miss Dennison saw that he purser sat back calmly have to mark time until I can 1 pare. We'll go tot ignored me? And © © disappsintaarh was merely a young man who had ; eS iso = “I couliin't be a teacher and not be Mer they were married, and that ornness, which was proved by the yielded to his shyness, an = = > ] disappointed,"? oF ee would be in another month—he would mold of her chin They went in to dinner, and when ||| , |] “she faced’ tim. confess, She knew : . ; thay emermodl the cea waelanitie cea Al NEXT SATURDAY’S COMPLETE NOVELETTE Hiei Him. “All through thie. sont Bhe: Knew ‘that "Untl \that Sargent was compelled to set his they eme 6 sea was calmer and || 8 n. up to now, you've been a time she would pretend the most Tian ce eR .¢ clouds were breaking away. — ee a ~ . — = peach; but fust as soon as it come: back to the flying sud, “Let's get“ Natumnlly.” eeid Bore with. {ll | 2 BU: At ax it comes superb innocence; and that alwaye out of this, A down to a matter of college, wh you ready to go be- out preface. “I'm in rather an | you're @ professor again, aren't you? Sfterward they would share this fort- low?” wkward position, If it weren’t one of ||| >) | °° © I won't let you spoil the very Might as the maddest, ax well as the ‘Oh, no, not yet, It's too glorious.” MY own courses I could offer to tutor ||| ny | last of it elther. We'd better drop happiest, of all their memories. you. We could do a lot in ten days. ||| | “Come on, then.” the subject and go swimmin, Sh “And while I'm getting out thing: But I'm afraid it wouldn't be ex Lave Win one wees fated ‘Anc getting ings “You know,” she gasped, “I wouldn't fair aauly ave him one of her tantalizing smiles, - . 5 7 5 = You wo Prenat Eames. from the pawn shop," he inquired, have Smagined you'd like this sort of "Of course it wouldn't, But you B Y M E L V I L ih, E D A \ PS 2 N PQ AN / examination ta iat sale cit” This somewhat later, “what'l you aor’ weg, Doctor.” keeow line eratetit, Son's your * said Miss Den- a ve done is to listen,."' an expert while Sargent only tloun- niaon, demurely HEY had turned into tl a “I know; but whe was supposed || ath y nt trne nt the wind“ ht A ee upponea Illustrated by WILL B. 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