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"It's constitutional, I fancy," Grahaested

Bert nodded

"It would be a handicap to nine hundred and ninety-nine women out of a thousand But not to her She puts up with it, and if she can't sleep one time--she should worry--she just sleeps sos Bert Wainwright told of his hostess, and Graha ood deal in awe of her

"I never saw anybody whose goat she couldn't get if she went after it," he confided "Man or woe, sex, and previous condition of servitude--it's all one when she gets on the high and hty And I don't see how she does it Maybe it's just a kind of light that comes into her eyes, or some kind of an expression on her lips, or, I don't knohat--anyway, she puts it across and nobody makes any mistake about it"

"She has aa ith her," Graham volunteered

"That's it!" Bert's face beaives you a chilly feeling, you don't knohy Maybe she's learned to be so quiet about it because of the control she's learned by passing sleepless nights without squealing out or getting sour The chances are she didn't bat an eye all last night-- excite Mountain Lad and such things Now ordinary things that'd keep s, Dick says don't faze her She can sleep like a baby, he says, when the town she's in is being bo to claw off a lee shore She's a wonder, and no a with Bert, encountered the girls in theand dancing and chatter, he was scarcely for a moment unaware of a loneliness, a lack, and a desire to see his hostess, in soh the open door

Still later, hbred mare called Mollie, Graham made a two hours' exploration of the dairy center of the ranch, and arrived back barely in tiement with Ernestine in the tennis court

He caerness for which his keen appetite could not entirely account; and he knew definite disappointment when his hostess did not appear