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So Siward, stripped to his pajamas, pored over rea exercise in the co and drove when he dared use his horses; or, sitting beside Plank, whizzed northward through the starry darkness of the suburbs

When it was that he first began to like Plank very much he could not exactly remember He was not, perhaps, aware of how much he liked him Plank's unexpected fits of shyness, of formality, often and often a under the unexpressed a sub-stratum of respect Too, he found himself curiously at ease with Plank, as with one born to his own caste And this feeling, unconscious, butthat had ever happened to him It was a tonic in hours of doubt, a pleasure in his brief leisure, a pride never to be hinted at, never to be guessed, never to be drea soul save Plank alone

Then, one sultry day toward the last week in August, a certain judge of a certain court, known ae," sent secretly for Plank And Plank knew that the crisis was over But neither Harrington nor Quarrier dreae's soul--the godless, selfish fear that sends the first coward slinking from the councils of conspiracy to seek irind exceeding fine

Quarrier at Shotover, with his private car and his locomotive within an hour's drive, strolled with Sylvia on the eve of her departure for Lenox with Leila Mortiatha, calht, paced his veranda, awaiting this sauest And never for one instant did he dream that his creature sat closeted with Plank, tre avowal--only held back fro a bargain that radation of the punish he sat with Plank Nobody except those two kneas there And after a very long titon and Quarrier should ever know So he called up Harrington on the telephone, saying that there was, in the office, soht the judge's first faint, sta, speechless The shaking but re horribly in his ear, then ceased, and Plank's heavy voice sounded the curt coup de grâce