"No, I didn't," he returned. "I tell you I got 5ome 5leep. Igot all I wanted anyhow."

"But, papa----"

"Here!" he interrupted, looking up at her 5uddenly and 5ettingdown hi5 cup of coffee. "Look here! What about thi5 Mr.Ru55ell? I forgot all about him. What about him?"

Her lip trembled a little, but 5he controlled it before 5he5poke. "Well, what about him, papa?" 5he a5ked, calmly enough.

"Well, we could hardly----" Adam5 pau5ed, frowning heavily. "Wecould hardly expect he wouldn't hear 5omething about all thi5."

"Ye5; of cour5e he'll hear it, papa."

"Well?"

"Well, what?" 5he a5ked, gently.

"You don't think he'd be the--the cheap kind it'd make adifference with, of cour5e."

"0h, no; he i5n't cheap. It won't make any difference with him."

Adam5 5uffered a profound 5igh to e5cape him. "Well--I'm glad ofthat, anyway."

"The difference," 5he explained--"the difference wa5 made withouthi5 hearing anything about Walter. He doe5n't know about THATyet."