Phillips glanced about as if to hint that any display of surprise or of
indulgence would be misplaced. Poor chap!--well, I'm glad he didn't see me
dancing.

"We broke up about eleven, and Mr. Randolph suggested that, as we lived in
the same general direction, we might walk homeward together. Great heaven!
it's eleven--and five after--now! Enough, in all conscience, for to-night.
You shall have the rest to-morrow."




7

_COPE UNDER SCRUTINY_


An evening or two later Cope again corked his red ink and uncorked his
black.

"As I have said, Mr. Randolph and I walked home together. He stopped for a
moment in front of his place. Another large, handsome house. He told me he
had the use of his quarters as long as his landlord's lease ran, and asked
me to come round some time and see how he was fixed. Then he said suddenly
that the evening was fine and the night young and that he would walk on
with me to _my_ quarters, if I didn't mind. Of course I didn't--he
seemed so friendly and pleasant; but I let him learn for himself that I was
far from being lodged in any architectural monument. Well, we went on for
the necessary ten minutes, and he didn't seem at all put out by the
mediocre aspect of the house where I have put up. He sort of took it all