the first time at a Ladies' B

-Providence, forecasting the future, placed them side by side, and he was introduced to her by his go

ccentuated by the characteristics of her northern descent, and a wealth of shining brown hair coiled about her shapely head;-Graeme, tall, clean-built, of an outdoor complexi

d him fullest justice, which I am most anxious to do-

notebook and his betting-book. He had not even read Graeme's latest, though it was genuinely in its second-somewhat limited-edition, and he did not

ver-fed and self-indulgent fashion, and inclined to superciliousness and self-complacency, if not to actual superiority and condescension. It occurred to him afterwa

is in casting us in many moulds. If we were all built alike, he thought, and all dribbled smart in

at dinner, and Graeme sat on the other side of her there. And so

sprightly chatter, of which she doubtless got more than enough at home,-essayed conversation with the silent one

tly to drink various toasts to people in whom they had, at the moment, no remotest interest

and that he drank right heartily, with his eyes on Miss Brandt's sparkling face, and if it had

ess, took upon himself the burden of Pixley, and engaged that eminent financier so deeply in talk concerning matter

to him afterwards that, for a silent and observant man, he had been led into quite unwonted, but none the less very enjoyable, ways. He went home that night feel

forward with eagerness to another tour in the near future. They

ent reader. To him it was a

, in a glow of na?ve enthusiasm. And then she blushed slightly lest he shoul

her character from the delicious little bits of se

is towards superfluity. But new places--! There are surely not many left except the North Pole and the South. Everybody g

cked Charles Pixley into a close little argumentative corner, and given him food for contemplation, and catching Graeme's last rem

o Sark, Grae

o. Let m

llows-to finish a book, or to start one, or just to grizzle and find yourself-try S

ror of his ways; and Margaret Brandt and Graeme resumed their discussion of places and books and people. And be

d that explains what happened af

sooth! We k