with frightened reverence and � she was any more mist he that winds it up i guess and turned heavily away for all his wandering thoughts they had never been more intimate than this he often reflected forget how old said a wise bird never goes love making in his own office or his own home start trouble sure but � in twenty three years of married life he had peered uneasily at every graceful ankle every soft shoulder in thought he had them but not once had he respectability by now as he calculated the cost of the house he was restless again discontented about nothing and everything ashamed of his and lonely for the fairy girl chapter iv pr was a morning of artistic creation fifteen minutes after the purple prose of s form letter the resident at came in to report a sale and submit an advertisement of who sang in and was merry at home over of hearts and old maid he had a tenor voice chestnut hair and a like a s hair brush considered it in a family man to growl seen this new picture of the kid � little devil eh but s domestic confidences were as as a girl s say i think i got a of an ad for the mr why don t we try something in poetry honest il d have wonderful pulling power listen mid pleasures and palaces wherever you may you just provide the little bride and we ll provide the home do you get it see � like home sweet home don t you � yes yes yes hell yes of course i get it but � oh i think we d better use something more dignified and like we lead others follow or eventually why not now course i believe in using poetry and humor and all that when it turns the trick but with a high class ment like the we better stick to the more dignified approach see how i mean well i guess that s all this morning ii by a tragedy familiar to the world of art the april enthusiasm of served only to the talent of the older george f he grumbled to that tan colored voice of s gets on my nerves yet he was aroused and in one he wrote do you respect your loved ones when the last sad rites of are over do you know for certain that you have done your best for the departed you haven t unless they lie in the beautiful lane tile only strictly up to date burial place in or near where exquisitely plots look from dotted hill slopes across the fields of sole agents company building he rejoiced i guess that ll show and his old something about modern ni he sent mat to the s office to dig out the names of the owners of houses which were displaying for rent signs of other he talked to a man who desired to lease a store building for a pool room he ran over the list of which were about to he sent thomas a street car conductor who played at real estate in spare time to call on side street prospects who were unworthy the of but he had spent his excite ment of creation and these routine details annoyed him one moment of heroism he had in discovering a new way of stopping smoking he stopped smoking at least once a month he went through with it like the solid citizen he was admitted the evils of tobacco made laid out plans to check the vice off his allowance of cigars and the pleasures of to every one he met he did everything in fact except stop smoking two months before by ruling out a noting down the hour and minute of each smoke and increasing the intervals between he had brought himself down to three cigars a day then he had lost the a week ago he had invented a system of leaving his and box in an unused drawer at the bottom of the correspondence file in the outer office i ll just naturally be ashamed to go in there all day long making a fool of myself before my own he reasoned by the end of three days he was trained to leave his desk walk to the file take out and light a cigar without knowing that he was doing it this morning it was revealed to him that it had been too easy to open the file lock it that was the thing inspired he rushed out and locked up his cigars his and even his box of safety matches and the key to the file drawer he hid in his desk but the passion of it made him so tobacco hungry that he immediately recovered the key walked with forbidding dignity to the file took out a cigar and a match � but only one match if cigar goes out it ll by have to stay out later when the cigar did go out he took one more match from the file and when a and a came in for a conference at eleven thirty naturally he had to offer them cigars his conscience protested why you re smoking with them but he it oh shut i m busy now of course by and by � there was no by and by yet his belief that he had crushed the habit made him feel noble and very happy when he called up paul he was in his moral splendor unusually eager he was of paul than of any one on earth except himself and his daughter they had been in the state university but always he thought of paul with his dark his precisely parted hair his nose glasses his speech his his love of music as a younger brother to be and protected paul had gone into his father s 