This last sentence was Phil's, and I fear he had peeped a little, or his context would not have been so apropos; but altogether the "cream-toast swarry," as he called it, was a pronounced success.
It was not long after this that a mysterious little cloud of difference seemed to fall on Thurber Wade.

He ceased to call at No.

13, or to bring flowers from his mother; and by-and-by it was learned that he had started for a visit to the East.

No one knew what had caused these phenomena, though some people may have suspected.

Later it was announced that he was in Chicago and very attentive to a pretty Miss Somebody whose father had made a great deal of money in Standard oil.