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Conscious that so had disturbed him, Wallie Macpherson raised himself on his elbow in bed to listen For a full ainst the sea-wall at the foot of the sloping lawn of The Colonial, the clock striking the hour in the tower of the Court House, and the ripping, tearing, slashing noises like those of a sash-and-blind factory, produced through the long, thin nose of old Mr Penrose, two doors down the hotel corridor, all sounds to which he was too accustomed to be awakened by the, the door between the room next to him and that of Mr Penrose was struck sour to denote that there was temper behind the blohich fell upon it He had not known that the roo considered undesirable on account of the audible sluentleman it was often vacant

The raps finally awakened even Mr Penrose, who de with the heel of my slipper," a feminine voice answered

"What do you want?"

"A chance to sleep"

"Who's stopping you?" crabbedly

"You're snoring" Indignation gave an edge to the accusation

"You're impertinent!"

"You're a nuisance!" the voice retorted Wallie covered his mouth with his hand and hunched his shoulders

There was aof a suitable answer Then: "It's e to snore if I want to This is my room--I pay for it!"

"Then this side of the door is mine and I can pound on it, for the same reason"

Mr Penrose sneered in the darkness: "I suppose you're some sour old maid--you sound like it"

"And no doubt you're a Methuselah with dyspepsia!"

Wallie sleefully--old Mr Penrose's collection of bottles and boxes and tablets for indigestion were a byword

"We will see about this in theto this hotel for twenty-eight years----"

"It's nothing to boast of," the voice interrupted "I shouldn't, if I had so little originality"

Mr Penrose, see to realize that the woue lasted until , ended it with a loud snort of derision

He was so wrought up by the controversy that he was unable to co a speech for Mr Cone, the proprietor, which was in the nature of an ultimatum Either the woman must move, or he would--but the latter he considered a remote possibility, since he realized fully that a multi-millionaire, socially well connected, is an asset which no hotel will dispense with lightly