said, and I guessed then what was going
to happen to him. I marvelled, listening
to the man, for it was the star of
constancy in her white soul that was
most lustrous to him--and while I
wondered the marvel became a commonplace.
Did not every lover think his
loved one exempt from the frailty that
names other women? There is no ideal
of faith or of purity that does not live
in countless women to-day. I believe
that; but could I not recall one friend
who walked with Divinity through pine
woods for one immortal spring, and who,
being sick to death, was quite finished
--learning her at last? Did I not know
lovers who believed sacred to themselves,
in the name of love, lips that
had been given to many another without
it? And now did I not know--but
I knew too much, and to Grayson I said
nothing.

That spring the ``boom'' came. Grayson's
property quadrupled in value and
quadrupled again. I was his lawyer, and
I plead with him to sell; but Grayson
laughed. He was not speculating; he
had invested on judgment; he would
sell only at a certain figure. The figure