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mean II, too," he returned.

ue throw you ONerDodTu, captain oel-
wyn."
II mean 1t, too" he returned
"And I'm not to marry that nice
young manT mockingly sweet. moi
What Not anybody at all-ever and
everT'
me" he suggested, "if you're as
thoroughly demoralized as that"
"Ohl Must girl be pretty thor
oughly demoralized to marry your
'T don't suppose she'd do it IL she
wasn't" he admitted, laughing.
She considered him, head ON one
side.
'You are ornamental anyway" she
concluded.
"Well, then" he said, lifting the
leader from the water to inspect 1t,
twill you have met"
"Oh, but Is there nothing to recon-
mend you except your fatal beauty?"
"My mustache," he ventured. "Its
considered very useful when Pm men,
tally perplexed."
Its clipped too close. have told
you again and again that I don't care
for 1t clipped like that. Your mind
would be a perfect blank if you
couldn't get hold Of it."
"And to become imbecile," he said,
"I've only to shave it."
She threw back her head and her
clear laughter thrilled the silence. He
laughed, too, and sat with elbows on
his thighs, dabbling the crinkled lead
er to and fro in the pool below.
$50 you won't have me?" he said.
"You haven't asked me-have you 2"
"Well, do now"
She mused, the smile resting lightly
on lips and eyes.
wouldn't such a thing astonish
Ninaf' she said.
He did not answer. A slight color
tinged the new sunburn on his cheeks,
She laughed to herself, clasped her
hands, crossed her slender feet and
bent her eyes on the pool below.
Marriage" she said, pursuing heI
thoughts aloud, 'is curiously unneees-
sary to happiness. Take our pleasure
In each other for example. 1t has
from the beginning been perfectly free
from Stiffness and sentiment"
Naturally" he said. "I'm old enough
to be safe"
"You are notr' she retorted. "What
q ridiculous thing to sayv'
swell, then," he said, "I'm dreadful
iy unsafe, but yet you've managed te
escape. Is that it?''
perhaps. You are attractive to wo
men! I've heard that often enough tc
be convinced. Why, even can see
what attracts them"-she turned te
look at him-"the way your head and
| shoulders set-and-well, the-rest. It's
rather superior Of me to have escaped
sentiment, don't you think so?"
Indeed do. Few-few escape
where many meet to worship at my
frisky feet, and this say without con
ceit is due to my mustachios. Tangled
in those like web tied files, imprisoned
hearts complain in sighs--in fact, til,
situation vies with moments in Boccac
clio"
Her running comment was her laugh
ter, ringing deliciously amid the tree.
until a wild bird, restlessly attentive
ventured a long, sweet response from
the tangled green above them.
After their laughter the soberness O
reaction left them silent for awhile
The wild bird sang and sang, droppin,
fearlessly nearer from branch to brancl
until In bis melody she found the Ike,
to her dreamy thoughts.
Because" she said, "you are so un
conscious of your own value / Iik,
you best think. never before quit
realized just what 1t was IN you"
my :" he said, "is what 20,
care to it."
9TH dy can afford to take yol
away D, Captain selwyn."
He with pleasure "That 1
the prettie-. thing woman ever ad
mitted to man." he said.
what more is there than cur cor
fdence In each other and our cor
tentT she said. @~oe s..
And, as he did not ot'respond: II wor
der If you realize how perfectly Lowell
you have been to me since you hav
come into my life. Do you7 Do 20
remember the first day-the very first-
how sent word to you that wishe
you to sea mx first real dinner gown