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When finally he re&euate, he shuffled up the walk, his head drooping, and ascended the steps and crossed the veranda and the threshold of the front door in the same manner

Julia stood before him

"Noble Dill!" she exclaimed

As for Noble, his dry throat refused its office; he felt that he ain, even if he tried

"Where in the world have you been all evening?" she cried

"Why, Jew-Julia!" he quavered "Did you notice that I was gone?"

"Did I 'notice'!" she said "You never ca after the first dance! Not even at supper!"

"You wouldn't--you didn't----" he faltered "You wouldn't do anything all evening except dance with that old Clairdyce and listen to hi"

But Julia would let no one suffer if she could help it; and she could always help Noble She made her eyes mysterious and used a voice of honey and roses "You don't think I'd rather have danced with him, do you, Noble?"

Immediately sparks seemed to crackle about his head He started

"What?" he said

The scent of heliotrope enveloped hih, and lifted her ar man "It's the last dance," she said "Don't you want to dance it with me?"

Then to the spectators it see upon a waxed floor and upon Julia's little slippers; he was bu everywhere; but in reality he floated in Elysian ether, i the bodice of an angelic doll

Then, on his way home, a little later, with his new hat on the back of his head, his stick swinging frorant Orduma between his lips, his condition was precisely as sweet as the condition in which he had walked to the party

No echoes of "The Sunshine of Your Smile" cursed his memory--that lover's little memory fresh washed in heliotrope--and when his ot home, and asked hilorious!" and believed it