contains "more damn' foolishness to the square inch than any other

house in the United States."

On all sides they sought for Cock-eye Flinks. But they never found

him, and to this day they have never found him. The Fates having

played their pawn, swept it from the board, and Cock-eye Flinks

disappeared in Clotho's capacious pocket.

All this time the young people saw nothing of one another. On this

point Jeal was adamantean.

"In a sick-room," he vehemently declared, "a woman is well enough, but

the