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The frequency hich Mr Penrose had presuht as he had listened to the encounter

Dropping back upon his pillow, the young man mildly wondered about the wo train while he was at thepictures, and retired immediately Very likely she was, as Mr Penrose asserted, some acrimonious spinster, but, at any rate, she had temporarily silenced the rich old tyrant of who sound of yard after yard of calico being viciously torn broke the night's stillness and, grinning, Wallie waited to hear what the woer would have hoped to do anything about it, since to prevent Mr Penrose fro was a task only a little less hopeless than that of stopping the roar of the ocean Guests whoet used to it Sometimes they did the one and sometimes the other, but always Mr Penrose, as the subject of a hundred complaints a summer, snored on victoriously The woman next door, of course, could not know this, so no doubt she had a entleman of his habit or have hi to wait, for shortly after Mr Penrose started again the tattoo on the door was repeated

In response to a snarl that erie, she advised hiry colloquy followed, and once more Mr Penrose was forced to subside for the want of an adequate answer

All the rest of the night the battle continued at intervals, and bynot only Wallie but the entire corridor was interested in the occupant of the roo his

Wallie was in the office when the door of the elevator opened with a clang and Mr Penrose sprang out of it like a starved lion about to hurl himself upon a Christian martyr While his jaws did not drip saliva, the thin nostrils of his bothersoer

"I've been coht years, haven't I?" he deht this suly

"In that tiht!"

"Dear enuinely disturbed by the information

"I could not sleep--I have not closedon !"