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It was the fourth e Of course, when this story is done in the movies they won't be satisfied with a bald statement like that; they will have a Spoken Title or a Cut-Back Sub-Caption or whatever they call the thing in the low dens where motion-picture scenario-lizards do their dark work, which will run:-AND SO, CALM AND GOLDEN, THE DAYS WENT BY, EACH FRAUGHT WITH HOPE AND YOUTH AND SWEETNESS, LINKING TWO YOUNG HEARTS IN SILKEN FETTERS FORGED BY THE LAUGHING LOVE-GOD

and the urip of their companions' hands and the man at the piano will play "Everybody wants a key toequally appropriate, very soulfully and sloith a wistful eye on the half-sarette which he has parked on the lowest octave and intends finishing as soon as the picture is over But I prefer the plain frank statee That is my story and I mean to stick to it

Samuel Marlowe, muffled in a bathrobe, came back to the stateroom from his tub His manner had the offensive jauntiness of the ht just as easily have had a hot one He looked out of the porthole at the shi and happy and exuberant

It was not merely the spiritual pride induced by a cold bath that was uplifting this youngback, he had suddenly come to the decision that this very day he would propose to Wilhelmina Bennett Yes, he would put his fortune to the test, to win or lose it all True, he had only known her for four days, but what of that?

Nothing in the way of ress is more remarkable than the ed concerning proposals of randfather had convinced himself, after about a year and a half of respectful aloofness, that the erandmother-to-be was love, the fashion of the period compelled him to approach theor two singing senti hi on the side-lines to see that no rough stuff was pulled Having noted that she drooped her eyelashes and turned faintly pink when he came to the "Thee--only thee!" bit, he felt a h to justify hi if the object of his affections ever happened to mention his na passed with her aunt, two more sisters, and her little brother, he felt that the ht send her a volues marked in pencil A feeeks later, he interviewed her father and obtained his consent to the paying of his addresses And finally, after writing her a letter which began "Madam! you will not have been insensible to the fact that for sos deeper than those of ordinary friendship" he waylaid her in the rose-garden and brought the thing off