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ton the front door bell rang and pres
emily the servant announced Mr.. Gar

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ton the front door bell rang and pres
emily the servant announced Mr.. Gar
bould.
.eOld Garbouldl" exclaimed Fred.
"Show him right out here, Ell, Laura?'
OF course Laura wanted whatever Fred
wanted. So Garbould was introduced.
Another bottle of wine was opened, and
the young people were pledged in due
form, Garbould making a very clever little
talk, l remember, of a kind appropriate
to the occasion. Upon its conclusion,
and just as he was about to set his glass
down on the table, he remarked sud-
denly:
by the way, Raeburne, was almost
forgetting. I've another thing to con-
gratulate you about. Your article has
come out. wish you Joy. 1t is really a
very clever bit of writing, indeed"
Raeburne blushed and muttered some
thing about praise from Sir Hubert Stan
ley.
But where did you see it," broke in
Laura, impetuously. "Oh, dear, I'm so
anxious to look at it."
Nothing easier" said Garbould. 1.-THE
magazine is issued today. They were just
putting them out on the news stands. as
came up on the elevated. | bought a
copy, aud one of the first things my eye
lighted on was your husbands article"
"Where is itY' asked Laura, eagerly.
''Out in my overcoat pocket" said the
critic "I'll 60 fetch it"
So Garbould brought the magazine, and
Raeburne, excusing himself, plunged into
the book, Laura the while looking over
his shoulder and reading no less eagerly
than be. Garbould began to expatiate on
the excellence of Fred's style to Kitty in
his usual bumptious fashion When the
."Old man who knows -it-all" condescends
to commend an author he is just as fierce
about it as when he condemns, which, by
the way, he usually does.
Garboald wearies me when he mounts
his hobby of criticism So l turned away
from him and began to watch Fred and
his wife. Every feature of Laura's face
was lighted up with interest and pride as
her eyes ran rapidly from one side of the
page to the other. Fred's face, on the
contrary, was a picture of CONSERVATION.
Presently he laid the book down on the
table. Laura looked at him in surprise.
Whats the row, Fred?" said l.
"Why, hang it all, there's some mis-
take. This is not my article at ALL
Not "A Carnival of Crime?" I in
CURED, while Garbould stopped his flow
of speech and cooked up his ear.
Not my Carnival of Crime Ger
tainly," said Fred. Listen to this: "A
Carnival of Crime: Being a protest
against the banging of horses tails and
womcn's head..
And very clever protest it is, too, u
pat in Garbould.
But It's not mine" said Fred, consid-
trably chopfalen. WHO the mischief
IAN have done this?"
He stared disconsolately at the maya
line as if he expected to find an answer to
the conundrum there. looked at Kitty.
She was gazing demurely out of the win
dow Suddenly Fred started and looked
bver at her.
You did it," he exclaimed, pointing
his finger at her.
Kitty laughed "Wen, if 1 did," she
Eaid, Il am sufficiently up in the law to
know that can't be compelled to testify
against myself. But whoever did it, " she
continued, you oughtn't to be very
angry. See what it has brought you. ."
And she pointed to the lovely face that
was leaning over Fred's shoulder.
kitty" | put in at this juncture, 'let
NE tell you one thing-no, two thingsl
These young people, like all the rest of
1s, viii have to row their own boats.
Also. people who push their noses into
other peoples affairs are apt to get them
sadly pinched."
You might add third" Kitty re-
bponded. 1T is often very good thing
to forget and forgive. You will, won't
you. FredY' she exclaimed, holding out
her hand.
Fred grasped it heartily, and fancied
there was CLEAN of tears in his eyes as
he turned away to explain matters to his
wife and Garbould "The Old -man-who-
knows-it-all" was at first disposed to feel
injured, rs if q fraud had been perpetrated
upon him personally. But upon rehec-
ton it was apparent that all he had said
about the article was as true now as it
had been before, so that he was not COM
promised in any way.
Kitty" said l, when some time after
we took our leave and were vending our
way homeward, kitty, so that was the
reason you were anxious to get rid of
me that evening, was it?'
"Of course, stupid" she said.
THE END.