T. Tembarom

vening. He had not seen his fellow boarders, as his restless night had made him sl

do nothing but talk and talk and ask questions;

is entry was made up of jokes, ejaculations, ques

ah! Rah!" "Lend me fifty-five cents?" "Where's you

ou get me rattled or I can't tell you

rue?" called o

or two and find myself in a hospital with a peacherino of a trained nurse smoothing 'me piller.' You can't fool ME

long breath was exhal

ow?" cried Jim Bowl

edge of the table and began to ch

ouse just about where the ark landed, and I guess they've held on to it ever since. I don't know what business they went into, but they made money

tary silence fell upon those who sat about the table. It fell when he said "three hundred and fift

?" some one asked after b

ef. "I just got out from under that

ing to do first?

hat Palford calls it. I've been a lost heir for

em as Arabian Nights tales to make jokes about. He had grown up as a village boy in proper awe of Temple Barholm. They were ignorant fools, this lot. He had no patience with them. He had left the village and gone to work in Manchester when he was a boy of twelve, but as long as

him when this happened; but there was something restless and eager in his look which made her wish to evade it. She knew what he felt, and she knew why he kept up his jokes and never once spoke seriously. She knew he was not comfortable, and did not enjoy talking about h

lton do?" Mr.

led. Three hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year m

o with your Freak?" call

had had too much to think over. He had not had time to give t

eave him behind whe

rd and put his

spoken about England two or three times. He's said he must go

ave the room he followed her

I've got to talk to some one who knows something about it

" answered Hutchinson. "Ann an

unks," said Ann, "but I dare say you won't mind th

groaned

ightly, and fitting them into corners. To Tembarom she looked even more than usual like a slight child thing one could snatch up in one's arms and carry about or set on one's knee without

own on the tru

th, lest the sound of his voice might check

ng upon her small heel

not to be wondered at, Mr.

morning! And, for the Lord's sake,

y. And you ARE Mr. Temple Barholm. You'll

yanked out of good old New York, and set down in a place like a museum, with Central Park roun

holm, is to keep your head clear,

d got a head

, with a benign appreciat

ith slight reservation. "But you've got one like your own. And it's a good head

inson's, by gee!" said

. "It's a wonderful thing that's happened to you. It's like a novel. That splendid place, that splendid n

a little as though

l in his voice-"you have liked

xtra quietness that made it remote. Sh

I have told Father I l

ade an impetuous

wake up Mr. Hutchinson and ask hi

face changed and flushed. "It's not a good time to ask Father anything when

'em any old thing. Little Ann, what's the matter wi

re even when he sat down on the trunk. Actually there was a touch of reserve about her, as though she was k

without knowing it. I don't know whe

r. Temple Barholm," she said-"

I ran up-stairs just crazy to talk to you,-yes, crazy to talk to yo

rolled packages in her hand. Her eyes were soft

ifferent. You just thin

erstanding of her dawned upon him. He made a

s different? Not on your life! You're not the girl to work that on me, as if i

, and she herself was not steady

u've not had time to t

he table that first day I saw my finish, and every day made me surer. I'd never had any comfort or taking care o

that?" she as

a break in his voice-"why, it just knocked me out the first round." He held her a little away from him, so that he could yearn over her, though he did not know he was yearning. "See, I'd sworn I'd never ask a girl to ma

you d

was in my life. When I got the page SURE, I let myself go a b

hink of now," said Little Ann. "I

n! Good Lo

ll into the trunk and tried to shut

ather high for her, and her small feet dangled. Her eyes looked large and m

cry a bit," she said,

e you don't want me?" he

I'm

again, but pulled himself up because he must. "No, b

are mostly not like women's. They're men, of course, and they're superior to women

t kind of

t it's like, and you don't. And I've seen what seventy thousand pounds a y

r with you coming

hold you back. I'm nothing but Ann Hutchins

le h's all over the place," he bur

ook he

lm look like those in the `Ladies' Pictorial', and t

y mistake about her character, and she was beginning to

ut of a magazine?" he cried.

ling, but unshake

em. How would you feel with a wife of th

that's what I should feel li

ike a queen. I shou

ue eyes held him as the Ancient Mariner had been held. He could not get away from the cl

ad taken an advantage. What you've got to do is to find out so

was you who put me on to the wedding-ca

swervingly. "I know how funny it is for any one to

know, and that's how funny it is that I should be Mr. Temple

dicial summing up of which it must be owned an added respect was part. She ha

things for himself, he's generally cle

nd took both her hands in his. H

Little Ann?" he said. "If you are,

wn from the top of her trunk. "I know what Mother would say. She'd say, 'Ann, you give that youn

looked at her closely, feeli

-you have,

stertorous breathing ceased, and he waked up, an

think when they whisper it's not going to disturb an

alked into

Ann to marry me," he an

elplessly, and let his h

oked at Ann disturbedly. "I thought a bit ag

k. I-would have been willing to say 'Yes' when you wouldn't have be

ack of his head, redden

Temple Barholms woul

s, when he's all upset with excitement, and hasn't had time to f

ve her a long

re?" h

, I

his head, and lo

ou?" h

er back, and returned his

e about it," she answe

nding before her was a sort of

his. But I want you to tell me one thing. If this hadn't happened

nd sixpence, and I've known curates' wives that had to bring up families on less. It wouldn't go as far in New York as i

in his florid countenance that wh

a fellow not to jerk her into his arms and squeeze the life out of her! I daren't do it, and I'm not

ined implications of exultant tende

e had th' sense of ten women rolled into one, and th' love of t

moisture. "But what hits me, by thunder! is that I've lost the chance of seein

ection, and while she knitted her brows in lovely consideration of the attractive

go to Temple Barholm and try it

more than a y

`Ladies' Pictorial', or whatever it is in England; I'll give them every chance in life, if you'll let me off afterward. There must be another lost heir somewhere; let's dig him

se to her, glowing with tempestuous boyish eagerness, her eyes grew bluer

een going to reveal what a home a woman could make in rooms like the compartments in a workbox. She

what the other thing means, I'll do whatever you want me

turning aside. "Same as her mother would have m

lf such as young ardor could not foresee, even the possibility of his new life withdrawing him enti