confidently--"a well-known club man"; but he swallowed the phrase
before it was uttered and answered thoughtfully:

"It was one of the funeral guests, who gave me a lift in his motor,
and has taught me a thing or two about modern journalism on the way
up. I got stung."

"I thought you knew everything there is to know about that," remarked
Mrs. Harrington with the fidelity of a true spouse.

To this her husband at the moment made no response. When, six months
later, however, he received an invitation to the wedding of Walter
Dryden and Miss Florence Mayberry, he remarked in her presence, as he
sharpened his pencil for the occasion: "Those swells have trusted me
to write it up after all."




THE ROMANCE OF A SOUL


When Marion Willis became a schoolmistress in the Glendale public
school at twenty-two she regarded her employment as a transient
occupation, to be terminated presently by marriage. She possessed an
imaginative temperament, and one of her favorite and most satisfying
habits was to evoke from the realm of the future a proper hero,
shining with zeal and virtue like Sir Galahad, in whose arms she would
picture herself living happily ever after a sweet courtship,
punctuated by due maidenly hesitation. This fondness for letting her