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Then it was that Farbish dropped in withto be ahere there were open skies, packed George

Lescott's borrowed paraphernalia, and prepared to leave that sa, and Samson heard Adrienne's

voice at the other end of the wire

"Where have you been hiding?" she demanded "I'll have to send a

truant officer after you"

"I've been very busy," said the man, "and I reckon, after all, you

can't civilize a wolf I' your tiirla season with the blue devils," she announced "You've

been cooped up toothe ducks, and----"

"I'ht," Samson told her

"It would have been very nice of you to have run up to say good-bye,"

she reproved "But I'll forgive you, if you call et there early in the ht The next night, I shall be at the theater

Call me up after the theater, and tell me how you like it"

It was the same old frankness and friendliness of voice, and the same

old note like the music of a reed instruhed through the telephone

"I've been keeping away from you," he volunteered, "because I've had a