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"Except once," rejoined Miss Hinsdale "He played jigs when she came home

from somewhere or other, in June"

"It was Tosti's 'Let Me Die,' the very next evening," remarked the

er

"Ah," said one of the bachelors, "but his joy was sadder for us than his

misery Hear him now"

"I think he means it for 'What's this dull town to ly

for hi ofthe funeral march ceased to execute, disco violin; the banjo and the coster-songs

were given over; even the collegians' hborhood was forced to listen to the dauntless fiddle, but not without

protest, for there canant, spoken chorus fros had issued: "Ya-a-ay! Wetherford, put it away!

She'll come back!" The violin played on

"We all know each other here, you see, Mr Harkless," Miss Hinsdale snantly

"They didn't bother Mr Wetherford Swift," said the er "Not that

tilas'?"

"Oh, but it isn't absence that is killing hi women "It is Brainard Macauley"

"That is a oes Jim's double quartette Listen, and you will hear them try to----"