that I walked into dad's billiard room at home, and there was the
Johnny playing billiards with himself, cool as you please! He stopped,
and said, 'Hullo, didn't know you knew I this family!'

"I said, 'Didn't know you knew them, either.'

"'Relations, perhaps?' he asked.

"'Yes, parents,' I told him, and then we had a jolly gas."

Jack waited on Zaidos with such care all the way down from London that
the boy said he would be entirely spoiled. A big, roomy car met them
at the station and carried them smoothly over miles of perfect road
through the vast park of the Hazelden's where pheasants by the dozen
flew across their path, bright-eyed deer dashed into hiding, and
hundreds of wonderful Persian sheep grazed on the lawns that had been
lawns for generations.

It seemed strange to see Helen in filmy summer dress instead of the
severe uniform of a nurse, and Zaidos missed the white cap on her
beautiful hair, but he decided finally that she was even prettier
without it. Zaidos could not keep from watching her every move. She
ordered Tony about with a pretty air of sternness, but with such a look
of loving devotion that it was easy to see the reason for the young
man's look of contentment.

The days flew past as though on wings. Helen's younger sister proved
to be a second edition of Helen, even prettier if possible, and Zaidos
found himself wondering how he could ever have given a thought to the
blonde damsel whom he had met at the hop so long ago. Before it came
time to go, Zaidos caught himself regarding Helen in a new light. He
found himself thinking that she would be a very pleasant person to have
in the family! And that was going a long, long way for Zaidos!

He had news for Helen. A letter from the old doctor, with pages of
thanks and plans for the use of the money. Of course Helen had to hear
it all, and afternoons they would all sit on the terrace together, and
talk of the future and make pleasant plans.

Of the past, of the dreadful days on the stained battlefields of the
Dardanelles, they spoke little. Some day perhaps when time had
mellowed the colors, then this group of young people could talk it
over. Just now the price they had paid for their experiences seemed
too great. It was all too near. They tried to put it behind them, as
all the world will have to do when at last this war is over, when the
last gun calls its death challenge, when all the submarines rise to the
surface of the out