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There was no need to speak In silence, without a glance at each other, they returned to the cos, and other fry, that's the e old folks used to dance I'ainst the new dances, ht and dandy fine But just the same it wouldn't injure you much to learn to waltz properly The way you waltz, when you do atte or two that is worth while"
"For instance?" queried one of the girls
"I'll tell you I don't asoline the way it does--"
Cries and protests drowned Dick out for a moment
"I know I smell of it ood old irl of you that Paula can't walk into the ground There isn't a fellow of you that Graha hospital--Oh, I know you can all crank engines and shift gears to the queen's taste But there isn't one of you that can properly ride a horse--a real horse, in the only way, Ia smart pair of roadsters, it's a screech And howon the bay in your speed-boats, can take the wheel of an old-tiet out of your oay in her?"
"But we get there just the sairl retorted
"And I don't deny it," Dick answered "But you are not always pretty I'll tell you a pretty sight that no one of you can ever present-- Paula, there, with the reins of four slashing horses in her hands, her foot on the brake, swinging tally-ho along a , in the cool arcade of the great patio, a chance group of four or five, a alone After a tiazine with such absorption that he forgot those about him until an awareness of silence penetrated to his consciousness He looked up All the others save Paula had strayed off He could hear their distant laughter from across the patio But Paula! He surprised the look on her face, in her eyes It was a look bent on hi him Doubt, speculation, almost fear, were in her eyes; and yet, in that swift instant, he had ti--al into the just-opened book of fate Her eyes fluttered and fell, and the color increased in her cheeks in an une of speech; yet, caught so arrantly in the act, she was unable to phrase any passing thought Graha casually: "Do you know, I've just been reading De Vries' eulogy of Luther Burbank's work, and it seems to me that Dick is to the doetable world You are life-the stuff into new forms of utility and beauty"