Green Fancy

Chapter 45

Dynamiting munition plants in Canada was a grand project, says he, and it would have come to something if the d.a.m.ned women had only left the d.a.m.ned men alone. The expletives are O"Dowd"s."

Ten hours before Barnes found this illuminating message on his library table, he stood at the window of a lofty Park Avenue apartment building, his arm about the slender, yielding figure of the only other occupant of the room. Pointing out over the black house-tops, he directed her attention to the myriad lights in the upper floors of a great hostelry to the south and west, and said,

"THAT is where you are going to live, darling."

THE END

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