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"Then you didn't mean----"

"No," said Herbert, "I haven't heard of her losin' anything at all, lately" Here he added: "Well, grandpa kept goin' on about you, and he told her----Well, so long!" And gazed after the departing Mr Dill in so Then, wondering how the back of Noble's neck could have got itself so fiery sunburnt, Herbert returned to his researches in the grass

The peaceful street, shady and fragrant with su Noble were like an interruption of coughing in a silent church As he seethed adown the warm sidewalk the soles of his shoes s not upon cement but upon Mr Atwater

Unconsciously his pace presently beca upon this slanderous old hter's hest way And upon this there cauish, for he thought of what Herbert had told him about Mr Newland Sanders's poe conviction that one tiingly of these poearettes and their sether vile

This charitable moment passed He recalled the little moonlit drama on the embowered veranda, when Julia, in her voice of plucked harp strings, told him that he smoked too much, and he had said it didn't ently that his mother would, and other people, too; he mustn't talk so recklessly Out of this the old eavesdropper had viciously represented him to be a poser, not really reckless at all; had insulted his cigarettes and his salary Well, Noble would show hi iarettes or the salary, but he could prove how reckless he was With that, a vision for spellbound at a crossing while a s youth stood directly between the rails in thetrolley-car destroy hih to whisper, as the stricken pair bent over him: "Now, Julia, which do you believe: your father, orsneer: "Well, Mr Atwater, is this reckless enough to suit you?"