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AMBI hurried to catch the 5:30 train for home, and as it rushed through the station she spied Jarvis striding on ahead, evidently bound for the same train. With the caution of a lady detective she kept behind him until he got aboard. Then she rushed ahead and got into the first car. At Sunnyside she astonished the town hack-man by leaping into his cab and ordering him to drive her home, top speed.

The situation appealed to her taste for intrigue. Into the house she sped and to her room. The Professor and Ardelia were in bed and asleep. When Jarvis came in she descended, to inquire about the fate of their play, with the calm of a finished actress.

“I’m waiting for you! What news?” she demanded.

“He likes it. If the author is satisfied, we go ahead at once.”

“Hooray!” shouted Bambi, pirouetting madly. “Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis Jocelyn, the talk of the town,” she sang. Rh