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184 “He ought to come home for a while, on a visit. I am saving several topics for disagreement.”

“No, it’s better for him to stick it out. No human being ever treated Jarvis like this Miss Harper is treating him, and it’s fine for him.”

“Aren’t you rather Spartan, my dear?”

“I am. I have felt all along that I had pushed him overboard before I was sure he could swim. Now I know he can.”

“You may tell him for me that our agreement was for two years, and it holds good.”

“I don’t know what your agreement was, Herr Professor, but if it had money in it, cancel it. I want him to learn that lesson, too.”

“Poor old Jarvis!”

“Don’t you poor old Jarvis me. Remember the abuse you heaped on him when I married him. I want him to be practical!”

The Professor rose and started for the garden.

“It’s your own affair, my dear.”

The outcome of Bambi’s thoughts was a letter to Mr. Strong. She invited him to spend the weekend with her father and herself, to talk over the book and other things. She added that she hoped that he would prepare himself with data about the thirteen