T. Tembarom

n so rudimentary should have presented no problems not perfectly easy to explain. It was herein that he was exotic. Mr. Palford, who was not given to subtle analysis

d and resentful, or boastfully delighted and given to a common yout

head altogether, possibly with results in the matter of conduct in public which would have been either maddening or cr

with fruit and flowers and books with respectful moderation. He did not conduct himself as a benefactor bestowing unknown luxuries, but as a young man on whom unexpected luck had bestowed decent opportunities to express his friendship. In fact, Palford's taste approved of his attitude. He was evidently much under the spell of the sligh

man like that," Tembarom said. "Money

another and why he seemed to be seeking interviews with persons it was plainly difficult to get at. He was evidently working hard to accomplish something or other before he left the United States,

for such a possibility. But youth and inexperience and suddenly inherited wealth not infrequently led to rash adventures. Something which Palford called "very handsome" was done for Mrs. Bowse and the b

d me and offer me the job. I hope this fellow wants it as bad as I did. He'll be up in the air." He discovered the whereabouts of the young man in question, and finding him, as the youngster almost tearfully declared, "a

I butted into the page," he said. "No one but you would h

cial representative and his new situation as interesting as amusing and just touched with the

n. I was scared out of my life when I started out that morning of the blizzard, but I couldn't afford to be

g at him," answered Galton, who was actually neglecting his work for a few minutes so that

Tembarom explained. "You don't know what that is. He'll go at the page all right. I'm going

," said Galton. "

ble was they wanted you to eat and drink everything in sight, and they didn't

to a big, p

ve it, he was as glad as if he'd had luck himself. It was just fine the way people took it. Tell you what, it takes good lu

iss you,"

m answered in a voice with a

iss you,"

face redden

day that I didn't know how to tell you how I-well, how I felt about you giving a mutt like me that big

ied. "I'm a tired man, and good spirits and good temper seem to me about the biggest assets a man can bring into

ctoria Cross?"

out when you

know about how many billion things I'l

replied Galton moderately; "but yo

fellow having to keep up his spirits because he's fallen into three hundr

has?" queried Gal

es were so honest th

people that die. If you knew what it was like, you wouldn't mind it so much; but

fond of

by gee! It's kept me alive when it might have starved me to death. My! I've had good tim

also with feeling. "You carry them over your shoul

entative of the EARTH would have been a great thing for Bennett, but to be the choice of the hero of a romance of wildest opulence was a tremendous send-off. He was accepted at once, and when Tembarom actually "stood for" a big farewell supper of his own in "The

s a feature of his client's exoticism. His extraordinary lack of concealment of things vanity forbids many from confess

Most of us can't. I've got a notion I can; but I don't many's the time when I should. There's a lot

f this mysterious friend or protege whose name was Strangeways. Of the history of his acquaintance with him Palford knew nothing, and that he should choose to burden himself with a half-witted invalid-in these terms the solicitor described him-was simply in-explainable. If he had asked for advice or by his manner left an opening for the offering of it, he wou

ing him remark casually, and he remembered it later, as he remembered the

up almost as soon as I spoke of him to Palford. He couldn't see anything but that he was crazy and ought to be put in an asylum. Well, he's not. There're times when he talks to me almost sensible; only he's always so awful low down in his mind you're afraid to let him go on. And he's a little bit better than he was. It seems queer to get to like a man that's sort of dotty, but I tell you, Ann, because you'll understand-I've got to sort of like him, and want to see if I can work it out for

sentiment to hamper him with any unnecessary burden. Natural tendency of temperament had placed no obstacles in the way of his keeping this rule. To burden himself with the instruction or modification of this unfortunately hopeless young New Yorker would be unnecessary. Palford's summing up of him was that he was of a

nt of eccentric and abominable temper. Interviews with him had been avoided as much as possible. His domineering insolence of bearing had at times been on

the last moment. He had been too much "rushed" by other things to remember that he must have them until almost too late to get them at all. He bought them merely because they were clothes, and warm enough to make a voyage in. He possessed a monster ulster, in which, to Mr. Palford's mind, he looked like a flashy black-leg. He did not know it was flashy. His opportunities for cultivating a refined taste in the matter of wardrobe had been limited, and he had wasted no time in fastidious consideration or regrets. Palford di

jects of unabated interest through-out the voyage, that it was proper that they s

st day Tembarom had been picked out from among the less-exciting passengers, and when he walked the deck, books were lowered into laps or eyes followed him over their edges. His steamer-chair being placed in a prominent position next to that of a pretty,

going to Europe," were companions to lure a man to any desperate lengths. They laughed incessantly, as though they were chimes of silver bells; they had magnolia-petal skins which neither wind nor sun blemished; they had

sket till he got to Liverpool. If he didn't go crazy about Irene, he'd wake up raving about Honora; and if he got away from Honora, Adelia Louise would have him `down

who shared his suite of rooms and never came on deck. Sometimes the Gazelles prettily reproached him. Adelia Louise suggested to the others that his lack of advantages in the past had made him feel rather awkward and embarrassed; but Palford knew he was not embarrassed. He accepted his own limitations too simply to be disturbed by them. Palford would have been extremely bored by him if he had been of the type of young outs