erlapped surrounding growth. At the right of her drawing Linda
sketched in a fine specimen of monkey flower, deepening the yellow from
the hearts of the amole lilies for the almost human little monkey
faces. On the left one giant specimen of amole, reared from a base of
exquisitely waving leaves, ran up the side of the drawing and broke into
an airy and graceful head of gold-hearted white lilies. For a long time
Linda sat with poised pencil, studying her foreground. What should she
introduce that would be most typical of the location and gave her the
desired splash of contrasting color that she used as a distinctive touch
in the foreground of all her drawings?

Her pencil flew busily a few minutes while she sketched in a flatly
growing bush of prickly phlox, setting the flower faces as closely
as the overlapped scales of a fish, setting them even as they grow in
nature; and when she resorted to the color box she painted these faces
a wonderful pink that was not wild rose, not cerise, not lilac, but
it made one think of all of them. When she could make no further
improvement on this sketch, she carefully stretched it against the wall
and tacked it up to dry.

Afterward she cleared her mental decks of all the work she could think
of in order to have Saturday free, because Saturday was the day upon
which she found herself planning in the back of her mind throughout
the strenuous week, to save for riding the King's Highway with Donald
Whiting. Several times she had met him on the walks or in the hallways,
and always he had stopped to speak with her and several times he had
referred to the high hope in which he waited for Saturday. Linda already
had held a consultation with Katy on the subject of the lunch basket.
That matter being satisfactorily arranged, there was nothing for her
to do but to double on her work so that Saturday would be free. Friday
evening Linda was called from the dinner table to the telephone. She
immediately recognized the voice inquiring for her as that of Judge
Whiting, and then she listened breathlessly while he said to her: "You
will recognize that there is very little I may say over a telephone
concerning a matter to which you brought my attention. I have a very
competent man looking into the matter thoroughly, and I find that
your fear is amply justified. Wherever you go or whatever you do, use
particular care. Don't have anything to do with any stranger. Just use
what your judgment and common s