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 alight from it a diminutive person in a fur coat and a dot of green hat.

"Ship ahoy!" boomed Johnny.

"Look out, you'll fall over backward!" warned Peg, giggling, as Jock and Cecily stretched their necks to look up.

"Wait'll you see what I've brought!" Jock shouted from the sidewalk, and the pair vanished into the doorway below.

Their arrival at the apartment proper was attended by an untoward mishap. Amy Hazelton, the girl at the piano, understanding that Jock had Yvonne with him and desiring to be apropos, struck crashing chords. . . . Jock and Cecily entered to the Bridal March by Lohengrin.

"Why, how nice!" said Cecily, quite unabashed. "Now if somebody'll lend me a lace curtain"

Amy gasped and jerked her fingers from the keys. "Oh, I'm so sorry—why, I thought of course it would be Yvonne!" she explained brightly.

Peg rushed to the rescue, and without waiting to be introduced to Cecily introduced her to the room at large. "Say hello to these tramps, my dear," she directed, hooking her arm into Cecily's. "The one now lumbering toward us is my warden, Johnny Havens. And this is Elsie Henry, and that's Dinny Purviance" She recited names rapidly, and Cecily smiled and twinkled; which was really all the current Cecily had to do to conquer.

"Jock seems to be trying to keep it a secret," she said at the end with just the proper touch of diffidence, "but my name's Cecily"

And inside of a minute they were calling her Cecily, with unanimous cordiality. They were making quite a little stir about her. Dinny dragged her coat from