h it be barley-sugar to ambrosia, a canary's
flight to a skylark's. Scorn it not; it's the romantic of the
unimaginative; and if it won't serve for a magic carpet, it makes a
useful anti-macassar.

The Macartneys saw no more of Urquhart, who, however, recovered the
use of his backbone, and with it his zest for the upper air. He sent
Lucy some flowers after the event of June, and later on, at the end of
July, a letter, which I reproduce.

"_Quid plura_? I had news of you and greeted it, and am gone.
I have hired myself to the Greeks for the air. I take two
machines of my own, and an m. b. If you can forgive me when
I have worked out my right we shall meet again. If you, I
shall know, and keep off. Good-bye, Lucy.

"J. U.

"The one thing I can't forgive myself was the first, a wild
impulse, but a cad's. All the rest was inevitable. Good-bye."

She asked Lancelot what _Quid plura_ meant. He snorted. "Hoo! Stale!
It means, what are you crying about? naturally. Who said it? That
letter? Who's it from? Mr. Urquhart, I suppose?"

"Yes, it's from Mr. Urquhart, to say Good-bye. He's going to Greece,
to fly for the navy."

"Oh. Rather sport. Has he gone?"

"Yes, dear, I think so."

"You'll write to him, I suppose?"

"I might."

"I shall too, then. Rather. I should think so."

THE END

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Transcriber's Note:

1) Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been retained from the original.

2) The original text includes Greek characters. For this text version
these letters have been replaced with transliterations.

3) Passages in italics are indicated by _underscore_.

4) The following misprints have been corrected:
vicacious corrected to vivacious (page 97)
"s[oe]ters" corrected to "saeters" (page 268)
missing text "w____" corrected to "where" (page 279)

5) Other than the corrections listed above, printer's inconsistencies
in spelling, punctuation, hyphenation, and ligature usage have been
retained.

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