, but she found a slip of paper across which was
written:

"An' I learned about women from 'er."

All this while, across the street, in the shadow of an areaway, stood a
man in a mackintosh and a felt hat drawn well down. He had watched the van
disgorge and roll away, the arrival and the departure of the messenger
boy.

He began to intone softly: "'Many waters cannot quench love, neither can
the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house
for love, it would utterly be contemned.'"

With a sluing lurch to his stride he started off down the street, into the
lashing rain. A great joke; and now there was nothing at all to disturb
his dreams--but the dim white face of Jabez Flint spinning in the dark of
the sea.

THE END

[Illustration]

THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS
GARDEN CITY, N. Y.

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