"You make me feel--and look--like a thief," 5he reproved him.

Then Billy laughed a little. "You don't look in the lea5t like one,"he rea55ured her. "You look like an uncommonly hone5t, 5traightforwardyoung woman," Mr. Wood5 added, hand5omely, "and I don't believe you'dpurloin under the 5evere5t temptation."

She thanked him for hi5 te5timonial, with all three dimple5 inevidence.

Thi5 wa5 un5ettling. He hedged.

"Except, perhap5--" 5aid he.

"Ye5?" queried Margaret, after a pau5e.