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On these occasions he found hi for Audrey, always She

had, with a sort of diabolical cleverness, succeeded in losing herself

Her house was sold, he knew, and he had expected that she would let

him knohere to find her She had said she counted on hiht It had warmed him

to think that, out of all the people he knew, to one woh he searched the gayest croith his eyes, those

hilarious groups of which she had been so frequently the center, he did

not find her And there had been no letter save a brief one without an

address, enclosing her check for the one, not only out of her old life, but out of his as well

At one of the great charity balls hethe crowd

"Pretty expensive, I take it," Nolan said, indicating the scene

"Orchestra, florist, supper--I wonder how et"

"Personally, I'd rather send the et soot to have a quid

pro quo, you know-most of us" He surveyed the croith cynical,

dissatisfied eyes "At the end of two years of the war," he observed,

apropos of nothing, "five million men are dead, and eleventhis sort of thing two years