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Plank laughed, and looked over several sheets of the typewritten matter on the desk beside hiht Did he suggest a date?"

"At four, this afternoon"

"Do you think you had better go?"

"I think it hing, and touched the electric button for the early tea, which Plank adored at any hour

For a while they dropped business and discussed their tea, chatting very co of the mental breadth of theto as well as talking to For Plank had forreat many subjects; and whatever culture he possessed was from sheer desire for self-cultivation

"You knoard," he was accusto myself to transmit"

"It will be all one in a thousand years," was Siward's usual rejoinder

"That is not going to prevent ood ancestor to ly "They shall have a chance, every one of theood"

Sipping their tea in the pleasant, sunny room, they discussedtrip on Long Island and the degeneracy of liver-fed trout; the North Side Club's Experies; Billy Fleetwood's new stables; forestry, and the chance of national legislation concerning it--a subject of which Plank was very fond, and on which he had exceedingly sound ideas

Drifting froars, silent when it pleased the for each other upon a basis at least superficially informal; and if Plank's manner retained at times a shade of quaint reserve, Siward's was perhaps the more frankly direct for that reason

"I think," observed Plank, laying his half-consuo don and see what our pre-glacial friend Quarrier wants I may be able to furnish him with a new sensation"

"I wonder if Quarrier ever experienced a genuine sensation,"the papers before him into divisional piles

"Plenty," said Plank drily

"I don't think so"

"Plenty," repeated Plank "It's your thin-lipped, thin-nosed, pasty-pale, symmetrical brother who is closer to the aniine I--" He hesitated "Do you want to know my opinion of Quarrier? I've never told you I don't usually talk about my--dislikes Do you want to know?"