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MUTT AND JEFF

ASYLUM

I WAS WORKING 'ON AN-INVENTION AND THEY SAID T WAS CRAZY! THAT'S WHY THEY PUT ME

IN HERE! BUT IM NOT CRAZY!

THEY PUT ME IN HERE SO THEY COULD GET,

CONTROL OF MY. INVENTION! THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH ME!

I'M

SANE!

YOUR STORY. TOUCHES ME!· I'LL TAKE IT UP WITH THE MAYOR; AND SEE THAT JUSTICE IS DONE!

I'LL BE BACK

TO SEE YOU

MONDAY!

POOR FELLOW, HE'S

PERFECTLY SANE ANYONE CAN SEE

THAT!

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TEMPTATION

AROM the lodge veranda Greg ness were forced into the background. watched the girl coming up the He turned to look at her, and she at hill. She wore a trim dark suit with him, and words were on his lips. But bright mittens and scarf. When she before he could speak, she said: reached the driveway that led to the veranda she stopped and waved.

"Hello, darling!" she called. Greg returned the greeting. thought:

"Darling, there's something I must speak to you about before-before." She paused, deep red rushing into her And cheeks. "It's been

on my mind

tor He weeks."

"Yes?" His throat felt dry. He "She's lovely and young and intel ran his tongue along his lips.

You ligent. I want her. I want her more

"It's about myself. About us. than I've ever wanted anything. I'm see, I'm so very young. Younger per-

you think. It seems going to ask her to marry me to-day." haps than

though I know my own mind, as thougą Greg was forty, but nobody ever nothing could ever change the way I guessed it. He was blond and had feel. But suppose it should happen kept his figure trim and had young that way? Suppose as I grow older ideas and a light heart. During the things about me did change, my habits past ten years he had had a dozen and thoughts and looks and the way

Romance

I acted? I wouldn't want you to be

*romances.

was one more

as

thing that helped him keep young. disappointed in me, darling, I want you Now, for the first time in his life, he to have your chance now. I want to was in love.

be fair. I wouldn't want you later to think I'd been otherwise.” The girl came up onto the veranda Greg's heart, stood still. Slowly, and stood smiling at him. There was very slowly the significance of what a sparkle in her eyes. There was the she had said, of what she was trying glow of health on her cheeks. There to do became clear to him. She want- was a lack of sophistication in her ed to be fair. She didn't want to cheat manner and the things ghe said.

or take advantage. She loved him, but loving him she wanted to be

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"The train must have been early. honest. I tried to get back so I'd be here when And so reason and unselfishness you arrived." She looked at him came from the remote recesses of eagerly, adoringly.

Greg's mind and haunted him.

"How old do you think I am?" he "She loves me," he thought. "She asked. And an eternity passed while he

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waited for her answer. If only she gave his correct age. If only he had been mistaken in the belief that he had misled her as he had others.

"I don't know," she smiled. "You're twenty-seven or perhaps twenty-eight, or twenty-nine. What difference does it make?"

What difference? For one fleeting moment temptation fought against the reason and unselfishness. Then he wants me as much as I want her. turned away, laughing hollowly. She She thinks I'm young, too."

caught his arm.

"Greg!" she cried. "Greg! What is

What's the matter?" -

He took her hands in his. "The train was hours late, days, weeks, it? months! That's the way it seemed, since it was you I was coming to see." do you think? I suppose I should He faced her, still laughing. "What "Oh, Greg!" she said. "Darling" thank you for being fair, for remind- The inn was full of gay week-enderą, ing me. After all, you are only a kid. That night in the dining-room there Immature. Of course you'll change. was gay banter and informality. An I should have thought of it myself. old-fashioned barn dance was held in It's too big a chance to take-keeping lobby later in the evening. But Greg on. Lucky thing one of us thought of and Lorena took no part. They were it in time. We've probably saved our aware of none of it, nor of the people, selves a lot of grief. A lot of grief.” of what went on about them. And he turned, and this time went on They

were conscious only of each down the hill, blindly, leaving her other of what the other said and there alone in the moonlight. how the other looked.

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Yet once,

returning from ` above | stairs where he had gone to get his mackinaw, Greg saw Lorena in the lobby against a background of all the others, and he was struck again by her tender young freshness, and some- thing stirred inside of him that caused the blood to course hotly in hía yoins.

They went outside and walked in the silver white moonlight along the road where quntains of snow were piled on either side. They came to a lane beaten had by the passing of many skis, and turned into it and came at length to the summit of a hill A. network of ski tracks fanned out. from their feet, for here all day long half a hundred of wildly shouting, joyful wintersporters had amused themselves.

!

But the spot was deserted now, en chanted by the "white" moon and crystalinė atmosphere,

For a long time they stood in silence, held by the spell, and Greg's thoughts stampeded and reason and unselfish-

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