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"I thank you You are still entle I do not wonder that Americans can be masterful men And now I thank you for your invitation, and ask you to let me withdraw my implied refusal If you will take rateful"

"You ain," he said, softly, as they drew near the elder members of the party, who had paused to wait for them "I shall ask your uncle and aunt to accompany us"

"Uncle Caspar will be busy all day, but I am sure my aunt will be charmed Aunt Yvonne, Mr Lorry has asked us to drive with him over the city, and I have accepted for you When are we to start, Mr Lorry?"

Mr and Mrs Guggenslocker stared in a bewildered sort ofeyes toward her husband, who promptly bowed low before the tall Aotten, sir When are the ladies to be ready?"

Lorry eighing in hiswith his mother, but two objections presented themselves readily First, he was afraid of this perverse maid; second, he had not seen his mother In fact, he did not know that she was in town

"At two o'clock, I fancy That will give us the afternoon You leave at nine to-night, do you not?"

"Yes And will you dine with us this evening?" Her invitation was so unexpected, in view of all that had happened, that he looked askance "Ach, you must not treat h he could detect the blush that returns with the recollection of a repriirl abruptly threw her arm about her aunt and cried, as she dreay in the direction of her rooood hted with the turn of affairs, but dismayed by what seee trio entered the elevator and then sauntered downstairs, his hands in his pockets, his heart as light as air Unconsciously he jingled the coins A broad smile ca it between his thuer he said: "You are what it cost her to learn ood fellow, youthat looks better than Guggenslocker on a hotel register Your mistress is an odd bit of humanity, a most whimsical bit, I must say First, she's no and then she's yes You're lucky, ive you over to the ers for the sake of a whim You are now retired on a pension, well deserved after valiant service in the cause of a most capricious queen"