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"But you don't mean to tell me that it was funk that kept you out of the pool to-day?" cried the impatient Wratislaw

"How do I know that it wasn't?" came the wretched answer

Wratislaw turned on his heel and o back

"You're an infernal idiot, Lewie, and an infernal child Thank heaven! your friends know you better than you know yourself"

The nextit was a different ard air, and seeht's episode

"Was I very rude to everybody last night?" he asked "I have a vague recollection of playing the fool"

"You were particularly rude about yourself," said Wratislaw

The young hed "It's a way I have so when a man's foes are of his own household"

The others see hollow He opened so face and a curious droop of the eyelids "Miss Wishart is all right," he said "My aunt says that she is none the worse, but that Stocks has caught a tre!"

The meal ended, they wandered out to the lawn to s with a hand on his host's shoulder He noticed soain to-day?" he asked

"Quite fit, thanks," said Lewis, but his face belied hiiven himself the incident of yesterday, but no proof of a non sequitur couldlandscape lay green and soothing at his feet Down in the glen -hay; up on the hill slopes they were driving lareat ocean and the infinite works of reat ships hasting out of port, the soldier scaling the breach, the adventurer travelling the deserts And he, the fool, had no share in this braggart heritage He could not dare to look ain the old fable he had lost his soul