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pretend the ordinary courtesies. He
would not listen to her. He ordered
his valet to bundle her out and to take
his own two weeks notice.
Nell had no moro fight in her than
violet Like a violet. she bloomed to be
trodden on or plucked for a moment and
tossed aside. She drifted back to the
shabby barge moored at the dock ana
waited for her father to return home.
Freneau, raging and calling himself
fool, drove his arms into the oVercoat
his man held for him and left for his
office. wondering whether he was to be
compelled to close up the office because
of the follies he had committed. HE
agreed that Irritation was poor ousl-
ness.
All this while Gloria lay in her bed
by the window imagining that Freneau
was mining away for her. while she
was getting we'll as fast as she could
for him. Doctor Royce's treatment con-
sisted mainly in keeping out OF the
way of nature, helping 1t, but not I'M
peding it with drugs. Gloria was re-
spending with all the rush Of youth.
He was glad of his success as a ply
stefan, but he was miserable over her
eagerness to get back to her romance.
Once, while he watched her as she slept,
ne saw that she SHllleu ne was ali diu
that he knew why. When her eyes
opened and stared about her room and
at him in bewilderment, he understood
that she had come out of the dream
realm.
"Oh, such a wonderful dream I've had.
dreamed 1 was well-all of a sudden
hoped out of bed, and-presto, my
clothes were on without all the trouble
of buttons and hooks and eyes, and /
f1oated through the fall and over the
roofs and climbed down the chimney
of Dicks apartment house like a regu-
lar Santa Claus.
"Then 1 came out through the steam
radiator without even rumpling my
frock. and there 1 found Dick so lonely
and forlorn as never was. When he saw
me he nearly expired of joy.
"Then l took him by the hand and
floated with him through the wall and
across the roof to the darlingest little
church. The darlingest little minister
1oated through the pulpit and then
dog on it'll had to go and wake up.
But wasn't it a beautiful dream?"
Beautiful" groaned Doctor Royce.
She was too happy to hear the sorrow
in his voice. She merely exclaimed:
Hurry up, for heavens sake, and get
me we'll"
And, like a dutiful young physician,
he promiseu. But he wondered whether
it was kindness or not to restore her
to the world where dreams do not often
come true-unless they are bad dreams.
CHAPTER VII.
Freneau in his office going over
the mornings mail was in a beast.
ly temper. He snapped at his
clerk when that CHEEKY young man wish
ed him a bright good morning" He
IL -6o Oq he AfrHa
tious stenographer's attempt to begin
the day breezily for HIM.
The air of the office was clouded with
Freneau's gloom when his partner. Null
ry. entered gayly and slapped him on
the back. The clerk and stenographer
paused eXpectant but before he spoke
to Mulry, Freneau snarled at them:
Get out and stay out till send for
you" 7@
They got out
Mulry was amused az his friends bad
temper. He chuckled: Wrong side of
the bed this morning. old Dear? What
seems to be your little trouble now?"
Freneau rose. threw his cigar away,
stuck his hands in his pockets. and,
pacing the floor, proceeded to acquaint
Mulry with the dire state OF his love
affairs. Mulry continued to be mildly
amused until he realized that their fl
Lancial security was again at stake;
then he became serious at once.
Freneau told him that Lois Stafford,
whom he was attempting to get rid of.
had learned of his engagement to her
sister-in-law, Gloria, and had become
unmanageable.
"she threatened that, unless 1 gave
UP my proposed marriage, she will con-
TESS the whole affair and then kill her
self"
Principally this meant to Mulry that
the firm would have to refund the large
sum of money Freneau had just Dor
re we'd from Glorias father on the
strength of the engagement. Mulry be-
gan pacing the floor also, chewing his
cigar. At last he chewed out an idea
that pleased him.
You make the trip to the branch Of
fees in my place, and take your fair
tormentor along. Perhaps you can APP
pease her and get her into a reasonable
state of mind"
Freneau did not care for the scheme
He shook his head in derision. Mulry
urged.
AT least it would gain time for u.s."
mo, it's out of the question; try
again. Freneau snapped. "She is going
to the Catskills for a week and she in
sists on my tagging along
Mulry ruDDeQ ms nedu. Ills ndSSaSel
seemed to conjure up another idea, for
he began to rummage through his desk.
He beckoned Freneau to come over TO
him and held up delightedly a handful
of miscellaneous papers. Freneau look
ed and saw merely number of sheets
Of writing paper and envelopes from va
rious big hotels about the country. They
meant nothing to him.
Mulry laughed and swung his huge
hulk back in the swivel chair till he al
most capsized 1t. Freneau, saving him
from a fall, demanded the reason for
the gay outburst. Mulry waved the
blank sheets of paper and envelopes at
him and exclaimed:
when I stop at hotel 1 always an
mex a lot of it's paper and envelopes"
Yes? And what have your parsi-
monious exhibits to do with our present
trouble?" queried Freneau patiently.
Mulry was disguised. why, don't
you see, you poor Don Juan? You take
these letterheads and write love letters
en- them to your sick fiancee. l take
them with me and mail them from
the different towns I make. Then Miss
Stafford will think you are there. Mean
while you can go away to the Catskills
and meet your troublesome Lois. Ifl
you can't rig up some story to get your
letter back from her and keep her quiet
until after your marriage, why YOU'RE
not the little bright eyes l always took
you for. See now?"
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