“‘And keep Dr. Guph chained,’ said he.
“‘Exactly, and give you like warning when I have a lie ready to launch.’
“‘That’s a fair treaty,’ he agreed.
“‘And a good idea,’ I said. ‘As a liar of long experience I have found it best to notify all comers what to expect of me when I see a useful lie in the offing. That has 32 enabled me to give my fancy full play without impairing my reputation. My noblest faculties have had ample exercise while my word has remained at par.’
“We made an agreement along that line, and Harry ceased to be a liar, and became a story-teller of much humor and ingenuity.”
III
WHICH IS THE STORY OF THE PIMPLED QUEEN AND THE BLACK SPOT
“Well, on our return, Mrs. Delance had a helmet and a battle-ax, with sundry accessories, emblazoned on her letter-heads and the doors of her limousine. Here was another case of charge it, but this time it was charged against her slender capital of good sense. Mrs. Delance was a stout lady of the Dreadnought type. Harry settled down in the home of his father and began to study the ‘middle clahsses’ with a drag and tandem and garments for every kind of leisure. The girls went to ride with him, and naturally began to smarten their dress and accents and to change their estimates. His ‘aristocratic’ friends and manners 34 were much in their company and ever in their dreams.