So she said, in her even voice: "You waste such a lot of your good energy, Barney, by exploding when there's nothing to blow up.

That's exactly what I'd decided to do.

Miss Sherwood has asked me out to Cedar Crest to-morrow afternoon, and I'm going." Barney let go the hold he had kept upon her wrists, and the dark look slowly lifted from his face.

"Why didn't you tell a fellow this at first ?" he half grumbled.

Then with a grim enthusiasm: "And when you come back, you're going to tell us it's all settled!" "Of course--if he asks me.