in at present is to get the best education I can and at the same
time carry on work that I love to do. I have a year to finish my
course in the high school and when I finish I will only have a
good beginning for whatever I decide to study next."

"That's nothing," said the irrepressible Henry. "It will take me
two years to catch a sufficient number of gold bugs to be really
serious, but there wouldn't be any harm in having a mutual
understanding and something definite to work for, and then we
might be able, you know, to cut out some of that year of high-
school grinding. If the plans I have submitted in the Nicholson
and Snow contest should just happen to be the prize winners, that
would put matters in such a shape for young Henry that he could
devote himself to crickets and tumble-bugs at once."

"Don't you think," said Linda quietly, "that you would better
forget that silly jesting and concentrate the best of your brains
on improving your plans for Peter Morrison's house?"

"Why, surely I will if that's what you command me to do," said
Henry, purposely misunderstanding her.

"You haven't mentioned before," said Linda, "that you had
submitted plans in that San Francisco contest."

"All done and gone," said Henry Anderson lightly. "I had an
inspiration one day and I saw a way to improve a house with
comforts and conveniences I never had thought of before. I was
enthusiastic over the production when I got it on paper and
figured it. It's exactly the house that I am going to build for