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ence gradually drifted back to its seats. Smithers was brought to his senses by feeling a slap on his shoulder and hear- ing the exclamation, “By Jove, Smithers, on earth that can fr you idiots scuttled over each other like a lot s there nothing hten you? Here , cool as a cucumber, while we of rabbits at a word from some fool! I'd give anything I know to have the nerve you have!" When the play was over, they decided to give a little supper to Smithers to celebrate this latest manifestation of his bray After indulging in the unusual extravagance of a couple y became and coolne of bottles of champagne, th quite demonstrative over their hero. “Well, Smithe: id one of them, after they had exhausted the eulogistic terms at their command, ‘I know that you are a brave man, but there is one thing that I would be willing to bet e you would not have the nerve to do. “Wl is that?’’ asked Smithers, dreading that his heroism might be put to the test. Miss Jenkins to marry you.” ow Miss Jenkins, only daughter and heiress of the head of the house of Jen- kins & Co., was the acknowledged belle of Pudenford. Every eligible bachelor in the place had laid his hand and heart at her feet, or had come as near to it as he dared to; but each had been decidedly aps a little contemptuously re- fused. They had come to regard her now as almost unapproachable, and were wont to say that nothing short of a duke would satisfy her. Smithers, immensely rel 1 to do anythin and per ed that he that in- was not a volved danger to his p willingly accepted the challenge and his cious person, CARRIED AWAY WITH HIS WORK. BREAKING UP ‘An’ I mortgaged my house to buy that car HOUSEKEEPING I can see where I’m shy a bath room, back stairs, library and part of the piazzer."” friends began to make bets as to whether he would really carry it through, The following afternoon he met Mis Jenkins at a tea. She was very gra- succeeded in getting As soon after as s cious to him and he an invitation to call. propriety permitted he presented him- If at her house, and, after spending a ery delightful hour in her company, he suggested ‘that she should take a walk with him the following Sunday after- noon. She accepted and all went well. As they were strolling in the pictur- esque outskirts of the town, Smithers espied a shady path which promised all the seclusion that he understood was necessary in the case of proposals. He decided to do iton that spot and get it over with, He had backed himself for a small sum, and he felt, too, that if he could only prove his bravery in this act, which had no terrors for him, he might escape being put to the test in any reached the convenient little grove, and as the green walls closed sked her hand in marriage, them in he in a sort of composite of different forms that he had culled from various novels and arranged for this occasion. 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