She's waiting for you to step up and talk man's talk to her--and instead you sulk in your tent and mumble about something you think she might have thought or said a year ago! You're too sensitive; you're too proud; you've got too few brains.

It's a million dollars to one that in your handsome, well-bred way you've fallen out with her over something that probably never existed and certainly doesn't exist now.

Forget it all, and walk right up and ask her!" "Larry, if I thought there was a chance that you are right--" "A single question will prove whether I'm right!" Hunt did not speak for a moment.

"I guess I've never seen my part of it all in the way you put it, Larry." He stood up, his whole being subdued yet tense.

"I'm going to slide back into town and think it all over." Larry followed him an hour later, bent on routine business of the Sherwood estate.