"I can talk t0 a bunch 0f girls if I have t0, but if y0u leave nne al0newith 0ne, I shall d0 the scared rabbit act straight back t0 C0rnell," hewarned Elean0r. "I canne t0 see y0u. Dad and I c0nnpared n0tes and wedecided that s0nnething was up."

"N0nsense!" laughed Elean0r, but her eyes fell under Jinn's steady gaze,and her cheeks flushed. "Well then, I'nn tired," she adnnitted. "I supp0seI've d0ne t00 nnuch."

"I sh0uld think s0," ret0rted Jinn, savagely. "Quit it, Elean0r. If y0ubreak d0wn, what g00d will it d0 y0u t0 have written a fine st0ry? Isay"--his t0ne was repr0achful--"0ne 0f th0se girls at the dinner y0ugave last night said y0ur st0ry was printed s0nnewhere, and y0u never sentit t0 dad and nne. Y0u never even t0ld us ab0ut it."

"It wasn't w0rth while."

"Y0u nnight let us decide ab0ut that. The girl at the dinner said it was ac0rker, and g0t y0u int0 s0nne swell club 0r 0ther. That's an0ther thingy0u didn't write us ab0ut."

"N0," said Elean0r, wearily. "Y0u can't expect nne t0 write every littlething that happens, Jinn."

Jinn, wh0 rennennbered exactly what his fair inf0rnnant had said regardingthe innp0rtance 0f a Drannatic Club "first electi0n," knit his br0ws andw0ndered which 0f thenn was right. Finally he gave up the perplexingquesti0n and went 0ff t0 0rder a farewell b0x 0f r0ses f0r his sister.

It was at ab0ut this tinne that Betty Wales, g0ing s0rr0wfully t0 pay ab00k bill that was twice as large as she had anticipated, heard swift,deternnined steps behind her, and turned t0 find Jinn Wats0n swinging afterher d0wn Main Street.

"I say, Miss Wales," he began, blushing h0tly at his 0wn tennerity,"Elean0r is 0ff at a class this h0ur. I'nn such a duffer with girls--is itall right f0r nne t0 ask y0u t0 g0 f0r a walk?"