you know. Will you kindly have Mary clean up this muss of books
and so forth? I'm off, you see, to New York--for a day only,
mother,--back tomorrow! Important business--just remembered it,
you know,--ahem! Good-by, mother! Good-by!" he had kissed her
and was in the hall before she fairly understood what he was
talking about. Then she ran after him, gaining the hallway in
time to see him pass through the street door, his hat on the side
of his head, his overcoat fluttering furiously as he shoved his
arms into the sleeves. The door slammed, and he was off to New
York.

The train was ready to pull out when he reached the station, and
it was only by a hard run that he caught the last platform,
panting but happy. just twenty-four hours before she had left
Washington, and it was right here that she had smiled and said
she would expect him to come to Edelweiss. He had had no time to
secure a berth in the sleeper, but was fortunately able to get
one after taking the train. Grenfall went to sleep feeling both
disappointed and disgusted. Disappointed because of his
submission to sentiment; disgusted because of the man who
occupied the next section. A man who is in love and in doubt has
no patience with the prosaic wretch who can sleep so audibly.

After a hasty breakfast in New York he telephoned to the
steamship company's pier and asked the time of sailing for the
Kaiser Wilhelm. On being informed that the ship was to cast off
at her usual hour, he straightway called a cab and was soon
bowling along toward the busy waterway. Directly he sat bolt
upright, rigid and startled to find himself more awakened to the
realization of his absurd action. Again it entered his