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Wallie opened his eyes oneportentous was ih he was still too drowsy to reuidly and luxuriously on a bed which was the last word in comfort, since Mr Cone's pride in The Colonial beds was second only to that of his pride in the hotel's reputation for exclusiveness With especially rammed linen, silken coverlets and imported blankets, his boasts were amply justified, and the beds perhaps accounted for the frequency hich the guests tried to get into the dining room when the breakfast hours were over

A bit of yellow paper on the chiffonier brought Wallie to his full sense as his eyes fell upon it It was the answer to a telegra inquiries as to the possibility of taking up a horound you can file on if you got the guts to hold it PINKEY

Wallie greare addressed to hiant, and partially unintelligible, it was plain enough that what he wanted was there if he went for it, and he had replied that Pinkey ht look for hi! He was saying good-bye forever to the hotel that was like home to him and the friends that were as his own relatives! He had 2,100 in realIn his new-born spirit of independence he wished that he ed hisothers

His aunt had taken no notice of Wallie's preparations for departure The news of the rupture had spread quickly, and the syreed, however, that if Wallie went West he would soon have enough of it and be back in tio South for the winter

Helene Spenceley had left unexpectedly upon the receipt of a telegram, and it was one of Wallie's favourite speculations as to what she would say when she heard he was a neighbour--soreeable, probably

With the sole his own funeral, Wallie arose and made a careful toilet It would be the last in the roos were handsome, the chairs luxurious, and his feet sunk deep in the nap of the velvet carpet The equipment of the white, commodious bathroo from his bedroo man accustomed to every modern convenience