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"I should be glad to hear the facts," he said with professional courtesy "In the absence of the Guv'nor"

"I have told you the facts!"

"Thisthe point of his pencil, "he wrote you letters proposing e?"

"No, no, no!"

"At any rate," said Mr Peters, disappointed but hopeful, "he made love to you before witnesses?"

"Never! Never! There is noWest!"

It was at this point that Jno Peters began for the first tiirl's mental balance The h to tell hi West The place was full of them Would a sane woht not, and he was glad that he had the revolver with hi as yet actively violent, but it was nice to feel prepared He took it out and laid it nonchalantly in his lap

The sight of the weapon acted on Billie electrically She flung out her hands, in a gesture of passionate appeal, and played her last card

"I love you!" she cried She wished she could have remembered his first name It would have rounded off the sentence neatly In such a moment she could hardly call hiracious goodness!" ejaculated Mr Peters, and nearly fell over backwards To a naturally shy man this sudden and wholly unexpected declaration was disconcerting: and the clerk was, ed He blushed violently And yet, even in that moment of consternation, he could not check a certain thrill No man ever thinks he is as homely as he really is, but Jno Peters had always come fairly near to a correct estimate of his char his fiancee to accept hian to wonder if he were not really rather a devil of a chap after all Thereabout capable of inspiring devotion like this on the strength of about six and a half hts succeeded this little flicker of coirl was an to edge towards the door Mr Saht to be warned