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But the days dragged on and she did not get about

Downstairs, Christine and Palayeties Palmer's "croas a lively one There were dinners and

dances, week-end excursions to country-houses The Street grew accusto autoht Johnny Rosenfeld, driving Pal asleep at

the wheel in broad daylight, and voiced his discontent to his uys," he said briefly "We start

out for half an hour's run in the evening, and get hoons And the more some of them have had to drink, the et a chance, I' to beat it while

the wind's ht, in Johnny Rosenfeld's loyal heart there was no

thought of desertion Paliven him a man's job, and he would stick

by it, no s that Johnny Rosenfeld did not tell his s when the Howe car was filled, not with Christine and

her friends, but os when the

destination was not a country estate, but a road-house; evenings when

Johnny Rosenfeld, ousted froht to the swinging car and say such fragments of prayers as

he could remember Johnny Rosenfeld, who had started life with few

illusions, was in danger of losing such as he had

One such night Christine put in, lying wakefully in her bed, while the

clock on the ht Palmer did not