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"Then why haven't you been to see le with virtue and outraged friendship

"You haven't done anything but--shohere I get off"

He sat down on the edge of the balcony and stared out blankly

"If that's the way you feel about it--"

"I' you I was a fool to think you'd ever care aboutI've been around seeing

solad to see ht,

too" There was boyish bravado in his voice "But whatyou've jilted racious! Why, Joe, I never promised"

"Well, we look at it in different ways; that's all I took it for a

promise"

Then suddenly all his carefully conserved indifference fled He bent

forward quickly and, catching her hand, held it against his lips

"I'm crazy about you, Sidney That's the truth I wish I could die!"

The cat, finding no active antagonisainst the boy's quivering shoulders; a breath of air stroked the

lory vine like the touch of a friendly hand Sidney, facing for