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"Oh, get out!" said Ralph Addington perfunctorily

"As sure as I' here," Honey went on earnestly "I heard a

woet it?"

The sense of humor, it seemed, was not extinct Honey's cohter For the rest of the , they joked Honey

about his hallucination And Honey, who always responded in kind to any

badinage, received this in silence In fact, wherever he could, a little

pointedly, he changed the subject

Honey Smith was the type of man whoood humor, partly because he turned it back with

so ready and so char sense of equality to pick huods

Honey Sestion of what is

popularly termed "temperament" He had no mind to speak of, and not more

than the usual a, he was

an average person That one thing was personality - and personality he

possessed to an extraordinary degree Indeed, there see about this personality of Honey's The

whole world of creatures felt its char to hiht dead fires in the blaze of his radiant youth Men hob-nobbed with

him; his charm brushed off on to the dryest and dullest so that,

temporarily, they too bloo thenal for a noiseless social cataclysm