writer girls at the office always go to YOU to sharpen their
pencils and tell them how to spell the hard words? Why do the
girls in the lunch-rooms serve you first? Because they're
hypnotized by your clothes? Is THAT it?"

"Do they?" I asked; "I hadn't noticed."

Kinney snorted and tossed up his arms. "He hadn't noticed!" he
kept repeating. "He hadn't noticed!" For his vacation Kinney
bought a second-hand suit-case. It was covered with labels of
hotels in France and Switzerland.

"Joe," I said, "if you carry that bag you will be a walking
falsehood."

Kinney's name is Joseph Forbes Kinney; he dropped the Joseph
because he said it did not appear often enough in the Social
Register, and could be found only in the Old Testament, and he has
asked me to call him Forbes. Having first known him as "Joe," I
occasionally forget.

"My name is NOT Joe," he said sternly, "and I have as much right to
carry a second-hand bag as a new one. The bag says IT has been to
Europe. It does not say that I have been there."

"But, you probably will," I pointed out, "and then some one who has
really visited those places--"

"Listen!" commanded Kinney. "If you want adventures you must be
somebody of importance. No one will go shares in an adventure with