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Lena had said such things before Dick began to revolve plans for a

larger kindness, and, in his slow masculine intellect, fancied that it

was all his own idea to try and bring this small person into contact

with those ould appreciate her and hom she could be

happy,--for of course Lena herself was quite sub summer dawdled itself away much as the

previous one had done There were the same week-ends at the lake, with

Dickirlhood into womanhood Yet

there was a difference Half a dozen Sundays, when Percival was too

busy, Ellery, half-irritated with his friend, half-exultant in his

desertion, spent the quiet afternoons à deux with Madeline

It see over Dick

At tiain he lapsed into erratic

silences out of which he came at new and unexpected points He developed

ideas that appeared to his friend not quite in keeping with the sterling

Dick of old He was less sensitive, so thought Ellery, in his code of