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"I don't want a girl to make me drunk," ejaculated Norris

"Well, I do," rejoined Dick

"And though Miss Elton's emotions do not lie on the surface, I'll

warrant they are there," Ellery went on as though letting off pent-up

steam "They are like her voice--like all her motions--neither loud nor

faint, but exquisitely modulated She seems to me like the enorance, but the untaintedness of a

the best, as the bee takes

honey and leaves the rest There's no subject, so far as I can see, on

which she is afraid to think; but I can not iine that any subject

would leave a deposit of mire in her mind"

"Gee whizz!" scoffed Dick "How fluent your year of journalis it is to be a serious-ed, while yet in youth, in ent of the press! And Madeline is another of the

same kind"

"I wish I were of her kind," said Ellery stiffly "You may poke fun at

me as much as you like, Dick, but it's beneath you to jeer at her"

"You old duffer, aren't you two the best friends I have in the world? I

like the clear and frosty mountain peaks"

"How did you find out about Barry?" Ellery asked abruptly

"I do not have to tell you any rio in and to bed We seeht If we don't separate soon we shall be

having a French duel"