hour for two hundred working hours, beginning on April twenty-second
and ending May thirty-first."

Johnny examined the board with eager interest. It was ruled into
tiny squares, forty blocks long and seven deep.

"I want to frame that when we're through," he said, admiring the
perfect drawing.

"Suppose you lose?" she suggested, smiling to herself at his
unconscious use of the word "we".

"No chance," he stoutly returned. "I have to paste a five-thousand-
dollar bill in each one of those blocks."

"You've kept your paste brush busy," she congratulated him,
marveling anew at how he had done it, as she glanced at the record
which she had herself set down. "I have the little squares crossed
off up to two hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars."

"The money's in Loring's bank," he cheerfully assured her. "That
pays me up to next Tuesday, May second, at two o'clock. This is two
o'clock, Thursday. I have twenty-four working hours to loaf."

"Lazy!" she bantered him. "That isn't loafing time; it's only a
safety margin."

Her eagerness about it pleased Johnny very much. When he had his
million he intended to ask her to marry him; and it was pleasant to
have her, all unaware of his purpose, of course, taking such an