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Hoent out and sat on the ca tree He watched a silver thread of a moon slip down between the branches and dip behind the hill, and while he sat there he went through all the desolation of a lonely life; the bitterness of having Leslie taken from him by one as unworthy!--He persuaded hi to step aside and give her up to a h!

The chi hi sorrow and loss hung over hirasp at cohtmare out of a few minutes' talk with a felloho used to be the Clouds' old neighbor Hethe truth And anyhoas a libel on friendship to distrust theh riches were some kind of a disease like leprosy that set people apart It wasn't his night to go down to the village, but just to dispel this nonsense and bring back his noro and drop in on the Clouds for a few ht of them all would reassure hiht Leslie Cloud was very young yet, and ht even be in a fair way to make a fortune himself somewhere, who knew? And as for that little cad, it was nonsense to suppose he was anything to fear Besides, it wasn't ti et it and work the harder Of course he could never quite go back and forget that he had admitted to himself that he was in love with Leslie, but he would keep it like a precious jewel hid far in his heart, so carefully locked that not even for his own delight would he take it out to look at now at this tiht see up and walked with a quick tread down to the village There was a cheerful clang of victrolas, player-pianos and twanging guitars as he passed the fraternity roo on his way toward Cloudy Villa

But as he neared the tall arched hedge, and looked eagerly for the welco-rooht Did that ht around the hearth? A fearful thought of the stranger intruded just here upon his fine resolves, and to dispel it he knocked noisily on the little brass knocker