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"Don't stir, dear old thing," he pleaded in a husky whisper "Pretend

not to notice, dear old Ha

lady----"

Then, clearing his throat noisily, "Coht have applied to one of the early Christian

by mistake on the door of his den

In spite of all injunctions, Hareat deal of notice, for the girl who caed her to be about the age of twenty-one

"Pretty" would be too feeble a word to e her The

russet-brown hair, dressed low over her forehead, e in their clear depths all

the ic and mystery of womanhood

She was dressed neatly He observed, too, that she had an open book

under her arm and a pencil in her hand, and it dawned upon him slowly

that this radiant creature was--Bones's secretary!

Bones's secretary!

He stared at Bones, and that young man, very red in the face, avoided

his eye

Bones was standing by the desk, in the attitude of an after-dinner

speaker as stuck for the right word In rowl or a squeak--the bottoister was now in exercise

"Did--did you want irl at the door hesitated

"I'ed I wanted to see you about