y they were not satisfied, that they
have decided to return all plans and call off the present contest,
opening another in a few months in which interested parties may again
submit their drawings? I will undertake swiftly and comprehensively to
eliminate Henry Anderson from California. I would be willing to venture
quite a sum that when I finish with the youngster he will see the
beauty of going straight hereafter and the desirability of a change of
atmosphere. He's a youngster. I hate to make the matter public, not
only on account of involving you and your friends in such disagreeable
business, but I am sorry for him. I would like to deal with him like the
proverbial 'Dutch uncle,' then I would like to send him away to make a
new start with the assurance that I am keeping close watch on him. Would
you be satisfied if I handled the matter quietly and in my own way?
Could you wait a few weeks for justice?"

Marian drew a deep breath.

"Of course," she said, "it would be wonderful if you could do that. But
what about Peter Morrison? How much did he know concerning the plans,
and what does he know about this?"

"Nothing," said Mr. Snow. "That most unusual young friend of yours made
me see the light very clearly concerning Peter Morrison. There is no
necessity for him ever to know that the 'dream house,' as Miss Linda
calls it, that he is building for his dream woman has any disagreeable
history attached to it. He so loves the spot that he is living on it to
watch that house in minutest detail. Miss Linda was fairly eloquent in
the plea she made on his behalf. He strikes me as a very unusual person,
and she appealed to me in the same way. There must be some scientific
explanation concerning her that I don't just get, but I can see that
she is most unusual when I watched them together and heard them talk of
their plans for the house and the grounds and discussing illustrations
that she is making for articles that he is writing, I saw how deep and
wholesome was the friendship existing between them. I even heard that
wonderful serving woman, whom they so familiarly speak of as 'Katy,'
chiding Peter Morrison for allowing Linda to take her typewriter to
him and do her own work with a pen. And because Miss Linda seems so
greathearted and loving with her friends, I was rather glad to hear his
explanation that they were merely changing machines for the time being
for a very particular reason of their own."

"Do you mean," asked