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After a hasty breakfast in New York he telephoned to the stea for the Kaiser Wilhel inforhtway called a cab and was soon bowling along toward the busy ay Directly he sat bolt upright, rigid and startled to find himself ain it entered his infatuated head that he was perfor to a stea a final, and at best, unsatisfactory gli woman who had appealed to his sensitive admiration A love-sick boy could be excused for such a display of imbecility, but adown to the water's edge to see that girl is enough to make you ashamed of yourself for life, Grenfall Lorry," he apostrophized "It's worse than any lovesick fool ever drea, I'll be bound The idiocy, the rank idiocy of the thing! And suppose she should seeat her out there on the pier? What would she think of o another foot! I won't be a fool!"

He was excited and self-conscious and thoroughly ashamed of the trip into which his i at the door in the effort to open it that he ht order the driver to take hi in his ear; his fancy was caught, and he listened: "Why not go down to the pier and look over the passenger list, just to see if she has been booked safely? That would be perfectly proper and sensible, and besides it will be a satisfaction to know that she gets off all right Certainly! There's nothing foolish in that Especially as I aht on the way there And as I have co whether she has secured passage I can find out in ain that And then I limpse of her before the ship leaves the pier She h atback again with a smile of justification on his face, he ht ahead We'll be a kind of a fool, but not so foolish as to allow her to see us and recognize us as one"