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K was moved It was like Max to make such an offer, like hi a favor and not conferring one But the offer left

hihed hi No tablet on the college wall could change that And when, late

that night, Wilson found hiued He realized its hopelessness when K

lapsed into whimsical humor

"I'm not absolutely useless where I am, you know, Max," he said "I've

raised three tomato plants and a family of kittens this su wall-paper for the room just

inside,--did you notice it?--and developed a boy pitcher with a ball that

twists around the bat like a Colles fracture around a splint!"

"If you're going to be humorous--"

"My dear fellow," said K quietly, "if I had no sense of huas, and make a stertorous entrance into

eternity By the way, that's so ht The bride-to-be expects soifts, and--"

Wilson rose and flung his cigarette into the grass

"I wish to God I understood you!" he said irritably

K rose with hi of the intervieas

crowded into his last feords

"I'rateful as you think, Max," he said "I--you've helped a