A PLEASURE RIDE WITH MISS STEVENS The morning train was due at ten o'clock.

At ten o'clock also Sam was due at Hollis Creek to take his long deferred drive with Miss Stevens.
It was a slight conflict, her engagement, but the solution to that was very easy.

As early in the morning as he dared, Sam called up Miss Josephine.
"I've some glorious news," he said hopefully.

"My kid brother will arrive at Restview on the ten o'clock train." "You are to be congratulated," Miss Stevens told him, with an echo of his own delight.
"But you know we've an engagement to go driving at ten o'clock," he reminded her, still hopefully, but trembling in spirit.
There was an instant of hesitation, which ended in a laugh.
"Don't let that interfere," she said.

"We can defer our drive until some other time, when fate is not so determined against it." "But that doesn't suit me at all," he assured her.