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Fro tank Graham talked with his hostess and rode as nearly beside her as The Fop's wickedness permitted, while Dick and Hennessy, on ahead, were deep in ranch business

"Insomnia has been a handicap all my life," she said, while she tickled The Fop with a spur in order to check a threatened belligerence "But I early learned to keep the irritation of it off ht of it off my mind In fact, I early came to make a function of it and actually to derive enjoy I kneould persist as long as I persisted Have you--of course you have--learned to win through an undertow?"

"Yes, by never fighting it," Graham answered, his eyes on the spray of color in her cheeks and the tiny beads of sweat that arose fro creature she rode Thirty- eight! He wondered if Ernestine had lied Paula Forrest did not look twenty-eight Her skin was the skin of a girl, with all the delicate, fine-pored and thin transparency of the skin of a girl

"Exactly," she went on "By not fighting the undertow By yielding to its down-drag and out-drag, and working with it to reach air again Dick taught me that trick So with my insomnia If it is excitement from immediate events that holds me back from the City of Sleep, I yield to it and co currents I invite les, the things that keepof Mountain Lad yesterday I lived it over last night as I had lived it in reality Then I lived it as a spectator--as the girls saw it, as you saw it, as the cowboy saw it, and, most of all, as my husband saw it Then I les, and painted the them, and then, a spectator, looked at them as if for the first time And I made myself many kinds of spectators, fro school and Greek boys of thousands of years ago

"After that I put it toof it on full orchestras and blaring bands I chanted it, I sang it-epic, lyric, co while, of course I slept in the midst of it, and knew not that I slept until I awoke at twelve to-day The last time I had heard the clock strike was six Six unbroken hours is a capital prize for me in the sleep lottery"