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He had been a fool He had iined that he could control himself, and practise the moderation that other men practised when they chose The puerile restraint annoyed him; his implied inability to master himself humiliated him, the more so because, secretly, he was horribly afraid in the remote depths of his heart

Exactly how it happened he did not reone don on business and had lunched with several men There was claret Later he remembered another café, farther up town, and another, ue hours--the fierce fever of debauch wrapping night and day in fla, deafened, drenched soul and body in the living fire; or drea fury of desire pulse and ebb and flow, rocking him to unconsciousness

His father's old servants had found hiain, this ti, had been broken

Through the waning winter days, as he lay brooding in bitterness, realising that it was all to do over again, Plank's shy visits becaradually part of the routine But it was , pink-fistedto attract him beyond the faintly amused curiosity of onehimself as the first of a race

As for reciprocation in other for a personal note to sound ever so discreetly, Siward tolerated no such idea Even the tentative advances of Plank hinting on willingness, and perhaps ability, to help Siward in the Anored Unpaid services rendered by ation to Plank was utterly out of the question Meanwhile they began to like one another--at least Siward often found hi forith pleasure to a visit from Plank There had never been any question of the latter's attitude toward Siward

Plank began to frequent the house, but never informally It is doubtful whether he could have practised infor of the attitude of a college lower classman for a man in a class above see is never entirely eradicated between men, no matter how close their relationship in after-life

One very bad night Plank came to the house and was aded butler; both were apparently frightened

That soh; and Plank, instinctively producing a card, dropped it on a table and turned to go It nised the innate delicacy of the motive, or it may have been a sudden confidence born of the necessities of the case, for he asked Plank to see his young master