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 it seemed to him that nothing could be better than to be able to give all his time to this agency which he had now procured; and he did enjoy his success, but he missed college. He missed not only the companionship of Lan and Bill Fraser and the other fellows who had lived in the Delta A house with him for four years; he missed classes, too, and the agreeable sense of advancement one had when in college and each day progressing nearer to the desirable and honorable goal of graduation. He did not suspect, until now, how much of his satisfaction in being in business, when he was in college, had come from his working for money, not for its own sake, but to earn him his education and to help out at home.

He was still helping out at home and that gave him satisfaction. He was not working for money simply to spend upon pleasant living for his wife and himself.

He remembered how Alice said he never could work just for money for pleasure. He remembered how she said it when in his arms that night he defied Eternity and she and he set the date upon which they would be married.

She came home in the last week in October. Fidelia read to David, from the society column, the announcement that the Sothron home on Sheridan Road was re-opened and that Mrs. Walter Sothron and her daughter had returned from Europe.

David met her about a week later. He had driven north in the afternoon to take home a customer, a woman, who had bought a car from him and who