talian sailor with his impossible charge against Mr. Tabor's own impossible charge against me, were new elements which might or might not work into the situation; but at least I

oming out right" would mean, except making Mr. Tabor admit himself outrageously mistaken, and his daughter-but it was better not to think about his daughter; unless I was ready to risk thinking too much about her. The very memory of her vivid face in the car-window, of her quizzical impertinences on the way, the sight of her lying motionless in the unnatural meadow, and most poignant o

shed under the original name of "Bellevue." I did not especially pine for it, with its green-lined matting, white enameled furniture, and chattering piazzas; but it had the unquestionable advantage of being only a couple of hundred yards from the Ainslies' cottage. There I hurried int

ldren?" he chanted, "Safe now in t

neighbors think of you? And Mr. Crosby will hardly like being called a Hebrew-not

nsense. Laurie, where is that bag

ft it in my room at the Bellevu

me over here. We are going to house-party in a couple of days, and we need you in our business. Your room is no

ess, I'm going to stay where I am. Can't be bothered w

ired," Mrs. Ainslie

re you are until you feel the need of a decent bed. Be

I want, and what you stand in crying need of, is exerc

isitors. Bob had a hard future cut out for him, and indeed for three days I led him a life that must have nearly killed him. Perhaps he may have scented some trouble behind my unusual en

ld I show even the mildest curiosity about her coming. And yet she came. I had come over prepared to drag Bob to the altar of another strenuous day, and I found her sitting alone on the veranda as quietly at ease as though nothing had ha

lor, Mr. Crosby," she said. "Your

er hand from mine, "What have I done?" I stammered.

ng coldly past me, her face

silence seemed to strike across me like a blow. "I b

the steps, she

why we shouldn't all play tennis together

ead nothing but the end of our friendship in her look of a moment ago; and now she spoke as if no shadow of mystery or misunderstanding had ever fallen between us. Of course, the surfa

d Bob. "I call that rather cool. I just mentioned you last night, and she asked all sorts of questions about how lo

s institution of learning I ever saw. He never spoke a word all Christmas that added to the party's

bor played a shade better than the average woman, covering her court with a forethoughtful ease that did the work without wasting exertion. She seemed not athletic, but to do outdoor things as some other woman might move t

und her waiting. The sea was evidently a passion with her as it was with me. Her eyes were shining with excitement, her head thrown a little back, and all her slim body, tender in every gracef

Do you feel that way ab

st plunge of the year we

when the water is there before you, you must wait a little sacrificial moment. I didn't feel like going in just at the first among all

hands above her head and dived, swimming under water with long easy strokes. I looked after her a moment, then followed. We came to the surface together, dr

ned dory. Lady had shaken down her hair, which her bathing cap had failed to keep

ou now a little better,

" I a

plunge. It somehow makes you clearer. If that is

suppose you were right that nothing much has happened to me, or I shouldn't hunt so for the physical uplift of the unexpected. I don't want to be merely selfish-I want to help in the world, not to h

seem to you merely

must look th

"When I asked questions in the hurry of the other night, it wasn't any desire to force my way into things that didn't concern me

possessed me had again blundered across her pain. Her eyes were upon the ground where her fingers burrowed absently in the

ld like to let you help, but-there is nothing you

said, and look

but it was as if both now felt a share in it, a kind of blindfold sympathy not altogether comfortless. Once when w

world would be particularly interesting. You were right the other day, after al

ave had some advent

d sold at auction in a candy store. I stopped suddenly. Was this her way of veri

ave, the faintest belief in anything really bad about you, don't

known," I replied

ittle turn about a tree larger than its neighbors, a man stepped into our sight. He was walking fast, covering the ground in long nervous strides. He carried a bit of stick with which he switch

Lady cried; "wh

you. Good fellow, Ainslie. Said you and Mr. What's-his-name-beg

His memory never can catch up with him, but you mustn't mind that

ger. "Excuse me, Lady, but-hold on a second. Got to go back next car, twelve forty-five." H

or Reid restrained himself to our slower pace as if he resented having to wait and thought ill of me for my very existence.

ter's wake-for I could not doubt that it was she that had brought him here. Why on earth should he be rude to me? I had never met the man. What business had he to behave as if he resented my being wit

id, "we have had a bitter loss; Doctor Reid has