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