ILLUSTRATIONS

From drawings in color by Alonzo Kimball

[Mac had the floor this afternoon]

[MacWhirter]

[But the perfume of the violets and the way she looked at me]

[The men pressed closer to look. "Roses, on a man like him!"]

[Not a tramp; rather a good-looking, well-mannered man, who had evidently seen better days]

[Again his fingers tightened; my breath was going]

["It's a better advertisement than two columns in a morning paper"]