Then--well, after that let happen what will!" She smiled once more at him--so sweetly; turned toward the figures upon the great globe; sank upon her knees before them.

Quietly we crept away; still silent, made our way to the little pavilion.

But as we passed we heard a tumult from the green roadway; shouts of men, now and then a woman's scream.

Through a rift in the garden I glimpsed a jostling crowd on one of the bridges: green dwarfs struggling with the _ladala_--and all about droned a humming as of a giant hive disturbed! Larry threw himself down upon one of the divans, covered his face with his hands, dropped them to catch in Olaf's eyes troubled reproach, looked at me.
"_I_ couldn't help it," he said, half defiantly--half-miserably.
"God, what a woman! I _couldn't_ help it!" "Larry," I asked.

"Why didn't you tell her you didn't love her--then ?" He gazed at me--the old twinkle back in his eye.
"Spoken like a scientist, Doc!" he exclaimed.