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He paused, and looked at Sa comment Sam had none to offer

"Why do you say you're in a hole?" he asked "It seeood You've got the check, and you're in the same house with Miss Hubbard What ets to hear about it?"

"Well?"

"She'd be sorer than a sunburned neck"

"Probably But why should she hear of it?"

"Ah! I' to that"

"Is there soe on," said Saaze on the shingle, up which the gray waves were crawling with their usual sluggish air of wishing themselves elsewhere A rain-drop fell down the back of his neck, but he did not notice it

"It was the weather that really started it," he said

"Started what?"

"The trouble What sort of weather have you been having here?"

"I haven't noticed"

"Well, down at Windles it has been raining practically all the time, and after about a couple of days it beca a bit fed Ispent all their lives in America, don't you know, they weren't used to a country where it rained all the tiet on their nerves They started quarrelling Nothing bad at first, but hotting upteret the wind up them There was that business of S Old Bennett is scared of him, and wants hi hioodish bit about that And then there was the orchestrion You remember the orchestrion?"

"I haven't been down at Windles since I was a kid"

"That's right I forgot that Well, -roos you switch on, you know Makes a devil of a row Bennett can't stand it, and Mortioodish bit over that"

"Well, I don't see how all this affects you If they want to scrap, why not let them?"