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"What greatdominant-- has the Hottentot race produced? The Hawaiian race produced only one-- Karo race in Aton and Du Bois--and both hite blood in thened a cheerful interest while the exposition went on She did not appear bored, but to Graham's sympathetic eyes she seemed inwardly to droop And in an interval of tilt between Terrence and Hancock, she said in a low voice to Graham: "Words, words, words, so ht--he so nearly always is; but I confess to my old weakness of inability to apply all these floods of words to life--to , to what I should do, to what I ly fixed on his while she spoke, leaving no doubt in hisdoht or wrong or way for my particular feet And now that they've started they are liable to talk the rest of the evening

"Oh, I do understand what they say," she hastily assured hi to me Words, words, words--and I want to knohat to do, what to do with myself, what to do with you, what to do with Dick"

But the devil of speech was in Dick Forrest's tongue, and before Graha hi which he had traveled To look at Dick's face it would have been unguessed that he was aught but a carefree, happy arguer Nor did Graham, nor did Paula, Dick's dozen years' wife, drea no e of position on a chair, no shade of expression on their faces

What's up? was Dick's secret interrogation Paula's not herself She's positively nervous, and all the discussion is responsible And Graha up toelse, rather than about what he is saying What is that so else?

And the devil of speech behind which Dick hid his secret thoughts ie the talk wider and wilder

"For once I could ales," Paula broke out in an undertone to Graha the required data