The Adventures of Sally

on the conclusion of the festivities, when Fillmore, who had furtively collected his hat and overcoat, had stolen forth into the night, had been overtake

e altered. Sally had always been like that. Even the uncle, who after the deaths of their parents had become their guardian, had never, though a grim man, been able to cope successfully with Sally. In that last hectic scene three years ago, which had ended in their going out into the world, together like a second Adam and Eve

pt on expanding till he had reached the normal,

e?" demanded Fil

to hear all

that all that sort of thing, all that boarding-house stuff, is a thing of the past. One's got beyond it. One wants

be a fat man," sa

om discussing the poi

but it's going to be big. Well, what I'm driving at, is about all this sort of thing"-he indicated the lighted front of Mrs. M

salary at poker and wanted to b

back," protested F

d

I don't see why, just because one has known people at a certain period in one's life when one was practically down and out, one should ha

frien

themselves one's friends, simply because father put it in his will that I wasn't to get the money till I was twenty-five, instead of lettin

ouse, probably

e was w

t believe in

l right if you had o

l eye. Brains? Dash? Spaciousness? Initiative? All present and

he said. "W

nur

had proved it so masterfully that it no longer required the assistance of faith. Still, it was trying; and there was not much consolation to be d

And I'll come round and bring you jelly and read to y

n swinging briskly along the sidewalk from the direction

ning, Mr.

ing. Miss

now my broth

t belie

dn't think it to look at him, but he was once a prune-eater among the

yed, and very good to look at. Fillmore, who had recently been going in for one of those sum-up-your-fellow-man-at-a-glance courses, the better to fit himself for his career of greatness, was rather

took advantage of the coming of this new arrival to remove himself. He had not enjoyed his chat with Sally, and it seemed probable that he would enjoy a cont

d think of a whole lot more good things which it would have been agreeable to say to him. And it had become obvious to her that Fillmore was not getting

hat a shame you couldn't come to the