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"I suppose they'll give us a good hate on Christmas Well, think of ht drink to our co us we shall have to"

Clayton read the letter twice

He and Natalie lunched alone, Natalie in radiant good huh collar of snificently set,

and Natalie, whose throat commenced to worry her, had welco notified Graham that his salary

had been raised to five thousand dollars

Graham had shown relief rather than pleasure

"I daresay I won't earn it, Father," he had said "But I'll at east try

to keep out of debt on it"

"If you can't, better let me be your banker, Graham"

The boy had flushed Then he had disappeared, as usual, and Clayton and

Natalie sat across froh-arayety True to Natalie's sense of the

fitness of things, a shted with small candles, stood in the center of the table

"We are dining out," she explained "So I thought we'd use it now"

"It's very pretty," Clayton acknowledged And he wondered if Natalie