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the flap the sign-e & Soomes The letter

which accompanied the proof enclosed merely repeated the offer to sell

the business for fifteen thousand pounds

"This will include," the letter went on, "a great number of unco series of poems which are

now in our possession, and a proof-sheet of which we beg to enclose"

Bones read the poems and they somehow didn't look as well in print as

they had in manuscript And, horror of horrors--he hite at the

thought--they were unuerite

Whitland! They were love poee which was unmistakable They told of her hair which was

beyond compare, of her eyes which rivalled the skies, and of her lips

like scarlet strips Bones bowed his head in his hands, and was in

this attitude when the door opened, and Miss Whitland, who had had a

perfect night and looked so lovely that her poe caricatures, stepped quietly into the room

"Aren't you well, Mr Tibbetts?" she said

"Oh, quite well," said Bones valiantly "Very tra-la-la, dear old

thing, dear old typewriter, I mean"

"Is that correspondence for me?"

She held out her hand, and Bones hastily thrust Messrs Seepidge &

Soomes's letter, with its enclosure, into his pocket